Venerable Dimitry of Prilutsk, with scenes from his life

Iconography:  Dimitri of Priluki, the Venerable, Life Cycles of the Venerable Dimitri of Priluki

Date: XVI century. C.a. 1503

Iconographic school/art center:  Moscow school

Icon-painter: Dionisius

Origin: From Spaso-Prilutsky monastery near Vologda.

Material: Wood, canvas, levkas, tempera

Dimensions:  height 139 cm, width 105 cm

The center of the icon represents the frontal half-length figure of blessed Dimitry wearing traditional monk clothes – a robe, the paramand and a mantle with koukoulon. His right hand is raised in blessing, with his left hand he holds a folded scoll.

Inv. NO ВОКМ 1593 © Vologda State Museum of History, Architecture and Art


  • General view
  • Nicolas the Wonderwokere
  • The face of the saint's
  • St. Nicholas consecrated deacon
  • The founding of St. Nicholas monastery in Pereslavl-Zalessky
  • Meeting with venerable Sergius of Radonezh
  • Meeting with Great Prince Dimitry of Don
  • St. Dimitry leaves Avnega
  • 10. St. Dimitry founds Spaso-Prilutsky and give him their land for the monastery)
  • The prophesy about the death of Great Prince Dimitry of Don
  • St. Dimitry is blessed to become abbot
  • St. Dimitry is blessed to become abbot
  • The dormition of St. Dimitry
  • The entombment of St. Dimitry
  • 16. The miracle of Vyatka citizens (angel strikes Vyatka citizens attempting to loot the saint’s tomb in Vologda)
  • The healing of the devil-obsessed Simeon
  • 18. The miracle of the church (the apparition of St. Dimitry carrying logs for the construction of a church)
  • The healing of the dumb John