Our Lady Hodegetria of Smolensk

Our Lady Hodegetria of Smolensk. 16th cent.
Unknown artist
16th cent.

The icon was stolen on 23 May 1994 from the Local History Museum in the town of Ustyug (Vologda region). It was discovered in the private Temple gallery in London, returned to Russia in 2005 and presented by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexei II in 2006

Magazine issue : 
#3 2007 (16)
Автор статьи: 

Anatoly Vilkov