Nicholas the Wonderworker, with life scenes and miracles

In the centerpiece is a shoulder-length image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker surrounded by border scenes illustrating the saint’s life and his miracle.

1. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord;
2. The Nativity of St. Nicholas;
3. The Baptism of St. Nicholas
4. Nicholas heals a woman with a crippled arm;
5. St. Nicholas is brought to monastic school;
6. St.Nicholas is consecrated deacon;
7. Nicholas is consecrated priest;
8. St. Nicholas saves the three young women from disgrace;
9. St. Nicholas quels the storm on the way to Palestine;
10. St. Nicholas raises the youth who fell down from the mast;
11. St. Nicholas heals the man possessed by a demon;
12. Nicholas consecrated bishop;
13. St. Nicholas in prison;
14. St. Nicholas denounces Arius at the Council of Nicaea;
15. St. Nicholas helps the Italian merchant sail his ship to Myra;
16. St. Nicholas saves the three generals from the execution;
17. St. Nicholas appears to the three generals in prison;
18. St. Nicholas saves a sinking ship sailing from Egypt to Lycia;
19. The repose of St. Nicholas;
20. The entombment of St. Nicholas;
21. Nicholas saves Basil, the son of Agricos, from Saracen captivity;
22. St. Nicholas saves priest Christophoros from execution;
23. St. Nicholas releases the Saracen from prison;
24. St. Nicholas’ relics translated from Myra of Lycia to Bari;
25. The miracle with the three icons;
26. St. Nicholas saves the drowning Patriarch Athanasius;
27. St. Nicholas saves general Peter from prison;
28. St. Nicholas saves the drowning Demetreus;
29. St. Nicholas saves the drowning child in the Dnieper;
30. The miracle with the Cuman;
31. St. Nicholas helps Serbian king Stephan to recover his sight;
32. St. Nicholas drives the demons out of the well;
33. St. Nicholas raises the man drowned in the sea;
34. St. Nicholas heals the sick youth;
35. St. Nicholas saves Simeon from the flooding;
36. St. Nicholas gives gold to a poor monastery;
37. St. Nicholas buys a carpet from the old man and returns it to his wife;
38. St. Nicholas saves the youth Nicholas possessed by a demon.

Registration number ГМПИ 1668\130. ДИ-9-И. © The State Museum of Palekh Art

Bibliography:

1. Палехская школа 1923-1950. Лаковые миниатюры иконописцев. Мюнхен, 2011.С. 48.

2. Иконопись Палеха из собрания Государственного музея палехского искусства (Palekh Icon Painting. State Museum of Palekh Art ). М., 1994. С. 60-61, 137-138, 147, Илл. LI.

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