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SAINT BARBARA
SAINT BARBARA
54.47
Unknown
19th c.
This tiny travelling icon represents St. Barbara wearing a miniscule martyr's crown and holding a cross in her right hand. All but her sketchily painted face and hands are visible beneath the...
DESCENT INTO LIMBO
DESCENT INTO LIMBO
54.62
Unknown
19th c.
Christ stands in a mandorla of horizontal gold rays, trampling the broken Gates of Hell and crushing Satan beneath them. He is dressed in radiant golden robes and holds a furled scroll in his...
EXALTATION OF THE CROSS
EXALTATION OF THE CROSS
54.65
Unknown
19th c.
In the ambo at the center stands Bishop Makarius of Jerusalem, raising up the eight-ended cross with outstretched arms, while two youthful deacons support him on either side and two acolytes with...
ST. DIMITRII TSAREVICH, ST. ALEKSII METROPOLITAN OF MOSCOW, AND ST. CATHERINE
ST. DIMITRII TSAREVICH, ST. ALEKSII METROPOLITAN OF MOSCOW, AND ST. CATHERINE
54.69
Unknown
19th c.
The three saints are painted full length beneath the image of Christ Pantocrator with an orb and billowing draperies, emerging in a burst of light from a bank of dark clouds. Directly beneath...
ST. NICHOLAS
ST. NICHOLAS
54.72
Unknown
18th c.
St. Nicholas is depicted bust length, a yellow omophorion with gold crosses and a red and gold brocade felon over his shoulders. His face is long and thin, with a very broad forehead creased with...
ST. PARASKEVA PIATNITSA
ST. PARASKEVA PIATNITSA
54.82
Unknown
1875-1900
The humblest of all icons was the small, quickly painted image produced as a souvenir of a pilgrimage to a famous monastery or to invoke the protection of a particular saint. Although...
ST. CATHERINE
ST. CATHERINE
54.86
Unknown
19th c.
The holy great martyr St. Catherine stands on a rocky promentory against a ground of olive green and dark brown. She holds an eight-pointed martyr's cross in her right hand and from her left is...
PORTRAIT OF NICHOLAS II
PORTRAIT OF NICHOLAS II
55.21
F. N. (Artist)
20th c.
The Tsar Nicholas II is seen bust length, facing forward and slightly to the right, dressed in a military uniform. The portrait is within an engraved oval frame of Louis XIV style and below are...
MENU
MENU
55.24
Sergei Ivanovich Yaguzhinskii (Artist)
1913
Menu used March 25, 1913 in Moscow to celebrate the three hundred years of Romanoff rule. It is printed in colors and gold. Main feature is the first Romanoff seated on the throne and wearing the...
MENU
MENU
55.25
Ignatii Nevinskii (Artist)
1900
Menu of Easter dinner. Head piece shows a Tsar wearing the Monomakh crown and in period costume, leading a procession with a figure at left making the traditional offering of bread and salt. Above...
CARTE DES ORDRES DE CHEVALERIE DE SA MAJESTÉ CZARIENNE, SES TITRES, L'ETAT DE SA NOBLESSE, PROFIL DE SON PALAIS ET LA VUE DE MOSCOW
CARTE DES ORDRES DE CHEVALERIE DE SA MAJESTÉ CZARIENNE, SES TITRES, L'ETAT DE SA NOBLESSE, PROFIL DE SON PALAIS ET LA VUE DE MOSCOW
55.26
Unknown
1732
Copperplate engraving. In French. Includes other sections: "Titres de sa Majesté Czarienne en ecrivant aux Souveraines," "Les Deux Differents Colliers de l'Ordre de St. André," "Le Czar faisant...
KING GEORGE VI
KING GEORGE VI
55.44
Edmund Blampied (Engraver)
1937
A portrait of George VI standing in his coronation robes wearing the Order of St. George, and holding the royal scepter. He wears knee britches, flat shoes and a fitted coat under his robes. He...