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Theotokos of Vladimir

Unknown iconographer, early 12th century

Theotokos of Vladimir
Theotokos of Vladimir, Michel Bakni  · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

A Byzantine icon of the Theotokos of Tenderness (Eleousa), with the Child pressing his cheek to his mother's. Brought from Constantinople to Kiev around 1131, then to Vladimir and finally to Moscow, it became one of the most venerated icons of the Russian Church.