Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God

The Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God, also known as Our Lady of Saint Theodore, is a Russian Orthodox icon of the Byzantine Eleusa, or Tender Mercy, type that served as the patron icon of the Romanov dynasty. Its date of creation is disputed among art historians, with proposals ranging from the early eleventh century to around 1300, and one theory holding that it was commissioned around 1239 as a wedding gift from Alexander Nevsky to his wife Alexandra of Polotsk. According to church tradition the icon was found intact in a forest near Kostroma in 1239 after surviving a fire that destroyed the cathedral housing it, and it rose to particular prominence in 1613 when the mother of the newly chosen tsar Mikhail Romanov blessed him with a copy of it before he departed for Moscow. The original icon is kept today in the Epiphany Cathedral in Kostroma, Russia. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/