Derzhavnaya bogoroditsa?
Michele A. Berdy
maberdy at GMAIL.COM
Thu Oct 22 14:32:29 UTC 2009
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>
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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
>
>
>>
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> Anthony Anemone
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