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Our Lady of the Don 
Artist Theophanes the Greek Year circa 1382-1395 Type Wood, tempera Location Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Our Lady of the Don (Russian: Донская икона Божией Матери) is a 14th-century Eleusa icon representing Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus Christ. The icon, currently held in Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, displays a Eleusa composition. The origins of the icon and the exact date of its creation are contested. It is believed to be painted by Theophanes the Greek circa 1382-1395. The monastery book of Donskoy Monastery states that Our Lady of the Don was a gift from Don Cossacks to Dmitry Donskoy the day before Battle of Kulikovo (1380).[1]
Donskoy Monastery is the main shrine of the icon
See also
- Eleusa icon
References
- ^ Zabelin, Ivan (1865). Istoricheskoe Opisanie Moskovskogo Donskogo Monastyria.
External links
Media related to Our Lady of the Don at Wikimedia Commons- Our Lady of the Don at the Pravoslavie.ru (in Russian).
Town-protecting Marian icons of Russia and Ukraine 
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venerationVladimirskaya (Vladimir and Moscow) · Znamenie (Novgorod) · Smolenskaya (Smolensk) · Feodorovskaya (Kostroma) · Kurskaya (Kursk) · Tolgskaya (Yaroslavl) · Tikhvinskaya (Tikhvin and Northwest Russia) · Kazanskaya (Kazan and all of Russia) 
Regional
venerationList of oldest Russian icons · Iverskaya · Vlakhernskaya · Donskaya · Pochayivska · Kholmska · DerzhavnayaCategories:- Eastern Orthodoxy stubs
- Painting stubs
- Eastern Orthodox icons of the Virgin Mary
- 14th-century Christianity
- 14th-century paintings
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