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 1755.
Onisii Korpin.
This mid-18th century copy repeated the waist-length Our Lady of
Tolga, traditionally known as revealed at the confluence of the Tolga
and the Volga near Yaroslavl in 1314. The Tolga Convent was later founded
on the site. According to the Legend, which appeared to the 17th century,
the icon was revealed by Archbishop Tryphon of Rostov at the Tolga - Volga
confluence. The archbishop suddenly woke in the dead of night to see wonderful
radiance across the river. He forded the river as if a bridge had spread
underfoot to see on the opposite bank a pillar of fire reaching to the
sky, and an icon of Our Lady hovering in the air. His servants found a
replica of this icon on a forest tree the next day. The miracle made Tryphon
put off a planned journey to have a church built on the spot. A convent
arose there later.  The
icon worship was local before the mid-17th century, which gave it a national
scope. The icon is commemorated August 8. The service to it was composed
in 1699.
The protograph of the miracle-working image is preserved at the Yaroslavl
Art Museum. The iconography belongs to the Tenderness type, deviating
from it by the Child's posture, standing on His Mother's lap touching
Her breast with the left hand. The icon of 1755 repeats the basic iconographic
characteristics of the protograph, and rather closely imitates its size,
though the colour scheme is thoroughly changed, which shows that the original
was covered with a later painting at the time it was copied. |
