Иконы России

For the first time, this book contains under one cover classical works on icon painting and icons by the greatest Russian thinkers and researchers of Christian culture and ancient Russian art: Evgeny Trubetskoy, Sergius Bulgakov, Nikolai Pokrovsky and others. Collected together, these vivid works provide a holistic, artistic, historical and religious interpretation of the ancient Russian icon at the same time. You will learn what icons are for, how they were created and how to understand their symbolic language, what place the icon occupied in the life of a Russian person in past centuries, what folk beliefs and customs are associated with icons, where does the miraculous power of holy miraculous icons come from. This colorful deluxe edition is addressed to a wide readership.