Our Lady of the Don

Our Lady of the Don (Russian: Донская икона Божией Матери) is a 14th-century Eleusa icon representing Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus Christ. The icon, currently held in Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, displays a Eleusa composition. The origins of the icon and the exact date of its creation are contested. It is believed to be painted by Theophanes the Greek circa 1382-1395. The monastery book of Donskoy Monastery states that Our Lady of the Don was a gift from Don Cossacks to Dmitry Donskoy the day before Battle of Kulikovo (1380).^[1]

References

^ Zabelin, Ivan (1865). Istoricheskoe Opisanie Moskovskogo Donskogo Monastyria.

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Our Lady of the Don at the Pravoslavie.ru (in Russian).

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