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Painted icons are a very important part of Russian Orthodox worship. Traditionally, very house, as well as many businesses, would have a “beautiful corner” in which the icon would hang, draped with a cloth, with a lamp hanging in front of it.

Every icon, to be accepted as orthodox, must copy a traditional compositional theme, though there were stylistic variations. This nineteenth-century icon is a copy of the well-loved Mother of God of Kazan.

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In this 1861 panting by V.G. Perov, peasants parade the icons of their church through the village. Many icons were considered to have miraculous qualities, and all icons served to join to the heavenly and earthly realms in some way, santifying the village and the land.