Derzhavnaya bogoroditsa?

[Anthony Anemone]

Dear List,

Here's another interesting question from another former student. She's looking
for information on an icon that they call "Derzhavnaya" in Russian and the
"Reigning (icon of the mother of God)" in English.  Just about every website
of Orthodoxy mentions this icon and they all tell the same story: the
peasant girl who found the icon on March 2, 1917, etc.  but she haven't been
able to find a single scholarly, historical, or peer-reviewed source that
mentions this icon.  Does anyone know anything about this icon?  Is its
story a fiction of the post-soviet Orthodox Church?  Any sources?

As always, thanks for the help.

Tony


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Anthony Anemone
Chair & Associate Provost of Foreign Languages
The New School
212-229-5676 ex. 2355

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