"What is this icon properly called? Is it Russian? Looks like Moscow school"
I don't think I've ever seen this specific icon before. It looks like a variation of an icon called "The Intercession of the Virgin" which is a Novgorod School icon, 14th/15th century. It is certain that it is Russian.
6 posted on 11/30/2006 3:47:53 AM PST by Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)