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Nicholas the Wonderworker with scenes from his life, St.

Iconography:  Nicholas of Zaraysk, St., Hagiographic cycle Nicholas

Date: XVII century. Ca. 1677

Origin: From the Church of St. Nicholas of Zaryadsk in Murom

Material: Wood, tempera

Dimensions:  height 99 cm, width 79 cm

In the center of the icon, against a dark ochre background, is the figure of St. Nicholas with hands spread apart, in a pose reminiscent of Orant. He is blessing with his right hand and holding a closed Gospel in his left. On either side of the saint, in the segments of heaven, are the figures of Christ and the Mother of God. Around the centerpiece, on a dark-cherry frame, is inscribed the text of Troparion to St. Nicholas, written in ornamental script: «Правило веры и образ кротости воздержания учителя яви тя Г (оспод)ь // стаду своему, яже вещеи истина сего ради стяжалъ смирениемъ высокая // нищетою богатая, отче наш с (вя)тителю Николае, моли Х(рист)а Б9О)га, спастися душам нашим». 


Border scenes: 

1. The nativity of St. Nicholas 

2. The baptism of St. Nicholas 

3. St. Nicholas refuses to drink mother's milk on fast days 

4. The healing of the crippled woman 

5. St. Nicholas brought to monastic school 

6. St. Nicholas consecrated deacon 

7. St. Nicholas consecrated archbishop 

8. St. Nicholas builds a temple in the name of St. Sion 

9. St. Nicholas saves a drowning youth Dimitri 

10. St. Nicholas appears to Emperor Constantine in a dream 

11. St. Nicholas appears to the three generals in prison 

12. St. Nicholas rescues the three generals from the execution 

13. St. Nicholas drives the demons out of the well and cuts the tree 

14. Nicholas heals the man possessed by demon 

15. St. Nicholas buys a carpet from the old man 

16. St. Nicholas returns the carpet to the old man’s wife 

17. The miracle of the three girls 

18. The miracle of the three icons 

19. St. Nicholas rescues the patriarch from drowning 

20. St. Nicholas rescues the three friends from drowning 

21. The miracle with the ship 

22. St. Nicholas rescues the youth Basil from custody 

23. The entombment of St. Nicholas 

24. The relics of the saints are carried from Myra to Bari 

Restored in the Grabar Restoration Center in 1993 by V.V.Zanozin 

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