Baltschug Kempinski Hotel. Moscow

The worship of the icon is connected with the campaigns of Ivan IV against the Tartar states and reminiscences of the victory over Tartars in the Battle of Kulikovo, on the river Don, in 1380. Tsar Ivan took the icon in his Kazan military expedition of 1552 and, after the victory, placed it in the Annunciation Cathedral of the Kremlin. In 1591, Tsar Fedor's prayer before it preceded the miraculous deliverance of Moscow from the troops of Khan Kazi Ghirei.

Looking from Kokui tower of Novgorod kremlin

Baltschug Kempinski Hotel. Moscow

View of the kremlin from the point at which the River Pskov joins the Velikaya.

Baltschug Kempinski Hotel. Moscow

Rostov kremlin

The Church of the Resurrection in Rostov kremlin

Photo of Pavlov P.

It is the oldest extant Old Russian altar crosses used in the Exaltation liturgy, one of the altar crosses-reliquariues prototyped by the True Cross. The oldest of such Byzantine crosses, of 10th century, ascend to crosses worshipped by the Imperial court.