Clarification of attribution of prophetic and ancestral ranks from the collection of the Mikhail Abramov Museum of the Russian Icon

Abstract

The collection of the Museum of the Russian Icons contains icons of prophetic and forefatherly ranks, which form part of a certain iconostasis, dated in the first publication about 1700 (the end of the XVII century). The purpose of this article is to clarify the attribution of the monument based on information received from the previous owner and archival documents.

Keywords

• russian icon
• iconography of the xvii century
• iconography of the xviii century
• palekh
• iconostasis