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From The Golden Age of Russian Literature
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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.
