Russian Orthodox Collection (page 4)

Miter of pearls, vestry of the Ipatievsky Monastery, Kostroma, 1911. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Miter of pearls, vestry of the Ipatievsky Monastery, Kostroma, 1911

Assumption Cathedral in the city of Tobolsk from the west, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Assumption Cathedral in the city of Tobolsk from the west, 1912

Icon of the Mother of God of Tikhvin, church of the Ipatievsky Monastery, Kostroma, 1911

Panagias [enkolpia]; in the vestry of the Ipatievsky Monastery, Kostroma, 1911

Sepulchre with the relics of Saint Evfrosiniia in Saint Eufrosyne Monastery, 1912. From album: Views of the Napoleonic campaign area, Russian Empire

Church of the Resurrection in the Grove (from the other side), Kostroma, 1910. Russian churches featured exterior and interior decoration in the forms of mosaics, frescoes, and carvings

Seeing off the Expedition on the Pier, 1912. Creator: Nikolay Vasilyevich Pinegin
Seeing off the Expedition on the Pier, 1912. From a collection consisting of an album and individual photographs from the family archive of geologist Mikhail Alekseevich Pavlov (1884-1938)

Seeing off the Expedition in Arkhangelsk, 1912. Creator: Nikolay Vasilyevich Pinegin
Seeing off the Expedition in Arkhangelsk, 1912. From a collection consisting of an album and individual photographs from the family archive of geologist Mikhail Alekseevich Pavlov (1884-1938)

Russian church with ground covered with volcanic ash after Katmia [i.e. Mount Katmai] eruption, 1912 Creator: Eric A
Russian church with ground covered with volcanic ash after Katmia [i.e. Mount Katmai] eruption, 1912

Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich's gospel and Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich's sacramental vessels... 1911
Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich's gospel and Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich's sacramental vessels [Trinity Monastery, Aleksandrov], 1911

Miter of the Patriarch Adrian, vestry of the Ipatevskii Monastery, Kostroma, 1911

Trinity Cathedral in the city of Yalutorovsk, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Trinity Cathedral in the city of Yalutorovsk, 1912

Study; in the courtyard of the Church of the Resurrection, Kostroma, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Study; in the courtyard of the Church of the Resurrection, Kostroma, 1910. Person standing in doorway of church

Prayer service before the opening of the exhibition, 1911. Creator: A. A. Antonov
Prayer service before the opening of the exhibition, 1911. From a collection of photographs documenting the First West Siberian Agricultural, Forestry, and Industrial Trade Exhibition

Nikolaevsk-on-Amur. Cathedral, 1900. Creator: Unknown
Nikolaevsk-on-Amur. Cathedral, 1900. Postcard from a collection of 103 postcards of the city of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in the early 20th century

Altar cross with a rock crystal decoration; a gift from Emperor Alexander II. Borodino, 1911

Holiday festivities, 1900. Creator: Unknown
Holiday festivities, 1900. This collection consists of sixty-six photographs and documents that depict the history and activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in Buryatia in the nineteenth

Red convoy with bread against the backdrop of the Sretenskaya Church, 1920-1929. Creator: Unknown
Red convoy with bread against the backdrop of the Sretenskaya Church, 1920-1929. From a collection of 153 photographs and documents drawn from the personal archives of people who lived in the town of

Rzhev: Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Rzhev: Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior, 1910

Iconostasis in the summer Fedorovskaya Church of the Mother of God, Yaroslavl, 1911

Phelonion [vestment]. From the time of Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich. In the vestry of the Assumption Cathedral. Rostov Velikii, 1911

L'Annee 1917; Les qui dirigeaient la Russie a la veille de la.... 1916. Creator: Unknown
L'Annee 1917; Les qui dirigeaient la Russie a la veille de la revolution: Raspoutine et sa cour de femmes. L'intrique germanique dominait dans cette camarilla

L'Annee 1917; Le faux moine Gregory Raspoutine, tué le 30 decembre 1916, 1916. Creator: Unknown
L'Annee 1917; Le faux moine Gregory Raspoutine, tue le 30 decembre 1916, 1916. The Russian false monk Grigori Rasputin, killed on 30 December 1916

"The Jordan" Epiphany Custom at St. Petersburg, 1856. Creator: Henry Duff Linton
"The Jordan" Epiphany Custom at St. Petersburg, 1856. Ceremony...in commemoration of the baptism of Christ, on the 6th of January, on the ice of the Neva

Alexei Mikhailovich, Tsar of Russia, c17th century. Creator: Anon
Alexei Mikhailovich, Tsar of Russia, c17th century

Les russes en France; La messe au camp russe, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Les russes en France; La messe au camp russe: la chapelle que represente cette photographie est celle de l'ambulance, un peu differente de celle que decrit l; auteur de l'article, 1916

Church of St Isaac, St Petersburg, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Church of St Isaac, St Petersburg, 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854"

A Priest, Peasant, Tartar Merchant, Russian Soldier, Lady in a Sledge, and a Jew, 1854. Creator: Unknown
A Priest, Peasant, Tartar Merchant, Russian Soldier, Lady in a Sledge, and a Jew; The Russian People 1854, 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853

Church of the Resurrection on the Blood, Saint Petersburg, between 1905 and 1915. In album: Various views and studies, Russian Empire and Europe

Kondinskii Monastery, 1862-1887. Creator: Mikhail Znamensky
Kondinskii Monastery, 1862-1887. From an album of 32 original watercolors from the library of Tsar Nicholas II. The subjects include scenes from Tobol'sk, Berezov

Bringing the icons of Abalatsky Monastery to Tobolsk, 1862-1887. Creator: Mikhail Znamensky
Bringing the icons of Abalatsky Monastery to Tobolsk, 1862-1887. From an album of 32 original watercolors from the library of Tsar Nicholas II

June 2, 1837, 1862-1887. Creator: Mikhail Znamensky
June 2, 1837, 1862-1887. From an album of 32 original watercolors from the library of Tsar Nicholas II. The subjects include scenes from Tobol'sk, Berezov, Obdorsk (present-day Salekhard)

Old Believers, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Old Believers, 1890. The album "Views of the Yakutsk Region" contains 151 photographs. Subjects include the Lena River shore; various forms of river transport--including boats, rafts

Old Believers, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Old Believers, 1890. The album "Views of the Yakutsk Region" contains 151 photographs. Subjects include the Lena River shore; various forms of river transport--including boats, rafts

Old Believers, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Old Believers, 1890. The album "Views of the Yakutsk Region" contains 151 photographs. Subjects include the Lena River shore; various forms of river transport--including boats, rafts

Old Believer family, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Old Believer family, 1890. The album "Views of the Yakutsk Region" contains 151 photographs. Subjects include the Lena River shore; various forms of river transport--including boats, rafts

Prayer in a Prison Courtyard, 1890. Creator: Ivan Nikolaevich Krasnov
Prayer in a Prison Courtyard, 1890 This photograph is from a collection consisting of an album and individual photographs preserved in the Aleksandrovsk Municipal History

Exit from a Prison Courtyard, 1890. Creator: Ivan Nikolaevich Krasnov
Exit from a Prison Courtyard, 1890. This photograph is from a collection consisting of an album and individual photographs preserved in the Aleksandrovsk Municipal History

Prayer in a Chapel, 1890. Creator: Ivan Nikolaevich Krasnov
Prayer in a Chapel, 1890. The photographs were taken on Sakhalin Island during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and provide rare glimpses of the island's settlements, prisons

Church of the Resurrection, 1900. Creator: Nikolai Apollonovich Charushin
Church of the Resurrection, 1900. This collection consists of sixty-six photographs and documents that depict the history

Prison Church at the Aleksandrovsk Post, 1880-1899. Creator: Innokenty Ignatievich Pavlovsky
Prison Church at the Aleksandrovsk Post, 1880-1899. From an album created on Sakhalin Island in the 1890s. Sakhalin was used by imperial Russia as a penal colony and place of exile for criminals

A Church in the Settlement of Rykovsk, 1880-1899. Creator: Innokenty Ignatievich Pavlovsky
A Church in the Settlement of Rykovsk, 1880-1899. From an album created on Sakhalin Island in the 1890s. Sakhalin was used by imperial Russia as a penal colony and place of exile for criminals

St Nicholas Church Sredne-Kariiskii Mines, 1891. Creator: Aleksei Kuznetsov
St Nicholas Church Sredne-Kariiskii Mines, 1891. One of 74 views taken in July 1891 and contained in the albumTipy i vidy Nerchinskoi katorgi (Views and inhabitants of Nerchinsk hard labor camps)

Tomsk: St. Trinity Cathedral, 1905. Creator: Unknown
Tomsk: St. Trinity Cathedral, 1905. National Library of Russia

Iakutsk: Bogorodskaia Church, 1904-1917. Creator: Unknown
Iakutsk: Bogorodskaia Church, 1904-1917. National Library of Russia

Petropavlovsk: Cathedral Square, 1905. Creator: Unknown
Petropavlovsk. Cathedral Square, 1905. National Library of Russia

Omsk: Ascension Cathedral, 1905-1914. Creator: Unknown
Omsk: Ascension Cathedral, 1905-1914. National Library of Russia

Omsk: Cathedral, 1904-1914. Creator: Unknown
Omsk: Cathedral, 1904-1914. National Library of Russia

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Russian Orthodox is a rich and vibrant religious tradition that has produced some of the most iconic and breathtaking artworks in history. From the famous Russian icons like "The Trinity" by Andrei Rublev, painted on wood in 1411, to the exquisite Icon of the Virgin and Child found in the Mary Magdalene Russian Orthodox church on Mount of Olives, these masterpieces reflect deep spiritual devotion. One such revered icon is "The Virgin of Vladimir, " created around 1131 in Constantinople. This painting holds immense significance as it represents the tender bond between mother and child. Another remarkable example is an oil-on-wood panel icon depicting scenes from biblical narratives. Architecture also plays a vital role within Russian Orthodoxy, with St. Michael's gold-domed cathedral standing proudly in Kiev, Ukraine. Its majestic domes reach towards the heavens, symbolizing faith's transcendence beyond earthly realms. Even outside Russia's borders, this faith thrives. In Alaska's Kenai Peninsula lies Nikolaevesk's Old Believer community with its stunning Russian Orthodox Church adorned with intricate icons. Moscow remains a hub for this ancient tradition; its Moscow School produced awe-inspiring works like "The Annunciation" from the 16th century. Additionally, St Basil's Cathedral stands tall on Red Square—a UNESCO World Heritage Site—its colorful onion-shaped domes captivating visitors from around the world. Amongst these treasures is "Our Lady of Yevsemanisk, " another masterpiece dating back to the 16th century—an embodiment of divine grace and beauty captured through artistic brilliance. Lastly, we cannot overlook "The Holy Face, " a tempera-on-wood creation that dates back to 1200-1250. This artwork exemplifies how Russian Orthodoxy has preserved its sacred traditions throughout centuries while continually inspiring believers worldwide.