Features:
Dimensions: mm 27h20h3
Avg. Weight: 7 grams.
Composition: Silver (925). Gilding (999).
Technique - Miniature relief, casting, gilding, blackening. Handmade.
Icons displayed on the most sacred Russia, the most beloved and revered by the faithful icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Kazan.
Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was revealed in Kazan in 1579, 26 years after joining the Tatar Khanate to Russia Ivan IV the Terrible. This year in Kazan raged a terrible fire that destroyed the Christian half of the city. The faith of Christ has become a byword and a reproach to the Muslim population, the chronicler wrote. And then the Mother of God appeared in a dream and told the girl Matrona on the ashes of the house merchants Onuchina where the fire started, take a miraculous icon, She bestowed to help the Orthodox.
