• Nicholas the Wonderworker

    An icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker with 20 scenes from his life and the mullion. The mullion depicts a full-length image of Nicholas the Wonderworker.
  • Nicholas of Zaraisk with Scenes from His Life, St.

    Saint Nicholas is depicted wearing bishop’s toggery, his right hand is blessing and his left hand holds a Gospel book. This icon belongs to an iconographic type known as “Zaraisky”, named after the miraculous icon. The icon is surrounded by 24 panels depicting scenes from the saint’s life.
  • Nicholas of Zaraisk with Scenes from His Life, St.

    The icon’s center is surrounded by fourteen scenes from the life of St. Nicholas, each accompanied by cinnabar inscriptions, some of which are illegible due to destroyed color layers. The inscriptions in the lower border panels are written in later periods.
  • Nicholas, St. with scenes from his life

    In the center of the icon is the full-length figure of the saint, his hand is raised in a blessing gesture. The border panels represents scenes from his life.
  • Nicholas the Wonderworker, with scenes from his life

    In the center of the icon is an image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. The saint is dressed in a dark-blue surplice, white polystavrion with brown crosses, with a white seamy side and cinnabar band on the edge, white omophorion with black crosses, decorated with stripes in the end and four dots of the same color, ochrous epitrachelion and epigonation with golden assist and red brushes at the ends. The saint’s left hand is covered with a large dark-blue cloth, on which lies the Gospel with a red edge and ochrous book-case, decorated with a golden assist. To the left, on the saint’s belt, symmetrically to an epigonation is a red cloth. The icon was covered with a basma case, which can be seen from numerous nail traces. The center of the icon is surrounded by 16 scenes from the life and miracles of St. Nicholas.
  • Nicholas the Wonderworker with scenes from his life, St.

    In the center of the icon, against a dark ochre background, is the figure of St. Nicholas with hands spread apart, in a pose reminiscent of Orant. He is blessing with his right hand and holding a closed Gospel in his left. On either side of the saint, in the segments of heaven, are the figures of Christ and the Mother of God. Around the centerpiece, on a dark-cherry frame, is inscribed the text of Troparion to St. Nicholas, written in ornamental script: «Правило веры и образ кротости воздержания учителя яви тя Г (оспод)ь // стаду своему, яже вещеи истина сего ради стяжалъ смирениемъ высокая // нищетою богатая, отче наш с (вя)тителю Николае, моли Х(рист)а Б9О)га, спастися душам нашим».
  • Saint Nicholas (Nicholas of Zaraisk) with scenes from his life

    The centerpiece of the icon shows saint Nicholas the Wonderworker full-length, his hands spread apart. His right hand blesses and his left hand holds the Gospel book on the cloth. To the right and to the left of his halo are represented half-figures of Christ and the Mother of God in the two color pink and red aureoles. The centerpiece is surrounded by 18 scenes from the life and wonders of saint Nicholas.
  • Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker (Nicholas of Zaraisk)

    Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker is depicted full-length, in a frontal pose, his hands spread apart: his right hand raised in a gesture of blessing and his left hand covered with phelonion holds the Gospel book.
  • St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (St. Nicholas of Zaraisk) with scenes from his life

    The centerpiece shows saint Nicholas the Wonderworker full-length, his hands spread apart. His right hand is raised in a gesture of blessing, his left hand holds the Gospel book on the cloth. The saint is shown in the attire of archiereus: greenish grey under-tunic of the bishop with brown stripes, ochroid epitrachelion, epigonation and liturgical cuffs decorated with pearls and gems, polystaurion (phelonion) and omophorion on his shoulders. His left hand is covered with bright red liturgical cloth with the Gospel book put on it. To the right and to the left of his halo are depicted half-figures of blessing Christ with the Gospel book and the Mother of God with the omophorion.
  • Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker (of Zaraisk) with scenes from his life

    Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker is depicted frontally, full-length. His right hand is blessing, his left hand is holding a Gospel book. At the sides of his halo in the quadrants are depicted Jesus Christ and the Mother of God with the Gospel book and the omophorion.
  • Nicholas the Wonderworker with scenes from his life

    The centerpiece shows the saint in a frontal pose in the traditional attire with his hands overspread. His right hand is raised in a gesture of blessing and his left hand holds the open Gospel book on the large blue-green cloth. To the right and to the left of his halo are the half-figures of blessing Christ with the Gospel bok and the Mother of God with the omophorion. To the right and to the left of the centerpiece and above it are twelve scenes from the life and miracles of saint Nicholas. The sequence of the scenes and iconography of some scenes are unique. Border scenes: 1. The Nativity of saint Nicholas 2. Learning letters 3. St. Nicholas consecrated as a deacon 4. St. Nicholas consecrated as a presbyter 5. Cutting the tree 6. Appearance before Tsar Constantine in his sleep 7. The transfer of St. Nicholas’s relics 8. Appearance before three imprisoned men 9. The death of saint Nicholas 10. The Miracle of the sailors 11. Saving three men from execution 12. Returning the adolescent Basilios to his parents
  • Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker of Zaraisk with scenes from his life

    The centerpiece depicts Nicholas the Wonderworker in full Episcopal vestment with his hands spread apart, one of which is blessing and the other one is holding the Gospel book. In the corners of the centerpiece are represented half-figures of Jesus Christ with the Gospel book and the Mother of God with the omophorion.
  • Nicholas the Wonderworker, St., with 18 scenes from his life

    In the centerpiece is represented the frontal depiction of the saint full-length dressed according to the tradition, his hands raised up in prayer. His right hand is blessing and his left hand holds the open Gospel book on the cloth. At the sides of the saint’s halo in the two-color aureoles are depicted blessing Christ with the Gospel book and the Mother of God with the omophorion. The centerpiece is surrounded by 18 border scenes from the life of the saint.
  • Nicholas the Wonderworker (of Zaraisk) with scenes from his life

    The centerpiece depicts Nicholas the Wonderworker in full Episcopal vestment with his hands spread apart, one of which is blessing and the other one is holding the Gospel book. In the corners of the centerpiece are represented half-figures of Jesus Christ with the Gospel book and the Mother of God with the omophorion.
  • Nicholas the Wonderworker of Zaraisk, St., with scenes from his life

    The centerpiece depicts Nicholas the Wonderworker in full Episcopal vestment with his hands spread apart, one of which is blessing and the other one is holding the Gospel book. In the corners of the centerpiece are represented half-figures of Jesus Christ with the Gospel book and the Mother of God with the omophorion.
  • Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, with scenes from his life

    In the centerpiece is the waist-length depiction of blessing saint Nicholas with the closed Gospel book in his left hand; at his sides in the round aureoles are Christ with the Gospel book and the Mother of God with the omophorion in Her hands. 
  • Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

    Saint Nicholas attired as a bishop is depicted full-length with his hands spread apart.
  • Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, with the Deesis tier and the Selected Saints

    In the centerpiece of the icon is depicted blessing saint Nicholas dressed as a bishop with the open Gospel book in his left hand.