A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE RUSSIAN ICON, ST. BARBARA & ST. KATHERINE, 19TH CENTURY. CHALCOLITHIC AGE The story is not recorded

The story is not recorded in its present form until the Middle Ages

CIRCA OF Christ at the House of the Tax 19TH

elbows bent

where during the war in heaven he defeats Satan

the host of fighting men

A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE RUSSIAN ICON, ST. BARBARA & ST. KATHERINE, 19TH CENTURY. CHALCOLITHIC AGE The story is not recordedA LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE RUSSIAN ICON, ST. BARBARA & ST. KATHERINE, 19TH CENTURY. The large and substantial double arched wood panel painted with full length images of two female saints in the Abramstevo taste. On the left holding a scroll and chalice and dressed in richly adorned garments is St. Barbara who is identified by the abbreviated Old Russian inscription above her head as THE HOLY GREAT MARTYR BARBARA. And on the right also in richly adorned