RUSSIAN ICON SILVER & ENAMEL OKLAD MOSCOW 1895 ROMAN OIL LAMP

RUSSIAN ICON SILVER & ENAMEL OKLAD MOSCOW 1895 ROMAN OIL LAMPA FINE RUSSIAN ICON SILVER & ENAMEL OKLAD, MOSCOW 1895. A very fine Russian silver gilt reppouse, engraved and cloisonn enameled oklad for an icon of Christ as the Lord Almighty (Gospod Vsederzhitel). The gilded silver multi piece, multi layered oklad, reppoused and finely engraved overall. The corners, borders and halo rendered in cloisonn enamel. The Gospel text open to John 13: 34 and rendered in champleve enamel. The title plaque on lower central

Russian gold- and silversmith

He opens up a new way and answers in a new way the old question which people have posed from ancient times and which I gave at the beginning of this sermon: ‘What is the purpose of life

At the time of Jesus it took 48 leptons just to buy a loaf of bread

there is a group of Twelve Great Feasts (Greek: Δωδεκάορτον)

John the Forerunner and St

Born in Pielisjärvi

The Feast of the Transfiguration has been celebrated in the Eastern church since at least the 6th century and it is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of Eastern Orthodoxy

75 inches (40

an animal’s feeding trough

made in Syria

which was also the one used for the temple tax

this all changed in about 615