According to ancient tradition, the wonderworking icon of Tikhvin is one of several painted by St Luke the Evangelist. The icon was taken from Jerusalem to Constantinople in the fifth century, where ...

A stunning architectural achievement, it remains in disrepair. Torzhok. Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Virgin (Old Church of the Ascension). View of tower interior. Aug. 18, 2006. William Brumfield ...

Thousands of Orthodox believers will congregate in a small town in north-western Russia today to celebrate the return of the country's most mysterious icon, the Virgin of Tikhvin, reputedly painted by ...

How a priceless Russian icon—said to be painted by St. Luke himself—evaded the Bolsheviks and the Nazis to land in a charming Chicago church designed by a world-famous architect. Former Travel Editor ...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Tikhvin Monastery in the Leningrad Oblast after a business trip to Tikhvin and bowed to the Icon of the Holy Mother of Tikhvin. This was not his first visit.

MOSCOW — A radiant image of the mother of God and her somber-faced child, so enchanting that it inspired Ivan the Terrible to build a monastery, has returned to its home in Russia, luring tens of ...

decades in the United States. After arriving in a special train car from St. Petersburg, 135 miles away, the Virgin of Tikhvin icon was carried aloft by Orthodox priests in dark robes toward the ...

MOSCOW – A radiant image of the Mother of God and her somber-faced child, so enchanting it inspired Ivan the Terrible to build a monastery, has returned to its home in Russia, luring tens of thousands ...

ST. PETERSBURG, January 7. / TASS /. Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God to the Transfiguration Cathedral of St. Petersburg on Tuesday at the Christmas ...