Derzhavnaya bogoroditsa?

[Michele A. Berdy]

With icons, I don't think you're going to find much scholarly or 
peer-reviewed literature -- especially about one that was found via visions 
in March 1917. Here's a link for Metropolitan Tikhon's report on it, which 
mentions an archeologist at the time who said that it came from one of the 
churches in the Voznessensky monastery. 
http://www.krotov.info/acts/20/1917_19/babkin_12.htm

It sounds as if it were quite an event at the time, so your student might 
check the newspaper archives.

I seem to recall that it was also a very big event when the icon was 
returned to the church in Kolomenskoe (where it still is).


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From: "Anthony Anemone" <AnemoneA at NEWSCHOOL.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:19 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Derzhavnaya bogoroditsa?


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