Theotokos of Kursk

The Theotokos of Kursk is an Orthodox Christian icon of the Sign type, showing the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child at her breast surrounded by medallions of Old Testament prophets, apparently painted in the thirteenth century and discovered in a forest near Kursk in Russia around 1295. Kept for centuries at the Kursk Hermitage monastery and carried each year in procession to the city of Kursk, a tradition later painted by the artist Ilya Repin, the icon was evacuated by the forces of General Pyotr Wrangel after the Russian Civil War and travelled through Serbia, Vienna and Munich before reaching New York in 1951, where it is now kept in a cathedral dedicated to it in Manhattan. It remains venerated by Russian Orthodox communities worldwide and is periodically brought back to Russia for veneration. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/