Council of Murom’s Wonderworkers
Iconography: Peter of Murom, St., Febronia of Murom, St., Constantine of Murom, Michael of Murom, Feodor of Murom, Juliania Lazarevskaya
Date: XVII century. The late 17th c.
Icon-painter: A provincial master of late 17th – early 18th centuries imitating the artistic style of Armory iconographers
Origin: From the I.S.Kulikov collection.
Material: Wood, tempera
Dimensions: height 32 cm, width 27 cm
The icon represents six praying wonderworkers – Murom’s Princes Constantine, Michael and Fedor, Peter and Fevronia dressed in clerical clothes, and the righteous Juliania Lazarevskaya. All the saints look in the direction of Christ in the clouds. On either side of Him are the images of the sun and the moon. The composition includes an image of Murom’s kremlin with a five-domed Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God, a tent-roofed bell-tower and the river Oka flowing under the wooden walls. This sort of panoramas, widespread in the Russian iconography of the 17th – 18th centuries, symbolized the patronage and protection the saints extended to the city or the hermitage by eternally praying to the Lord for them.
General view