Kholm icon Mother of God, according to legend recorded by Bishop Jacob (Susha), was written by the Evangelist Luke and brought to Rus' from Greece under Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, who after Baptism received many icons as a gift from Constantinople. The Kholm image of the Mother of God is depicted on a cypress board.
In the year, during the invasion of the Tatar hordes, the city of Kholm was plundered, the icon of the Mother of God also suffered: the precious frame was removed, the painting was damaged, and the icon itself was thrown away. A hundred years later, the holy icon was found and solemnly placed in the Kholm Cathedral. Two deep wounds remained on the icon: one on the left shoulder of the Mother of God, the other on Her right hand. A legend has been preserved that the wicked Tatars, who robbed and damaged the holy image, were then punished: they lost their sight, and their faces were distorted. The legend of the miraculous signs performed by the Kholmskaya Icon of the Mother of God is described in the book of Archimandrite Ioannikis (Golyatovsky) “New Heaven”.
In the year, the chasuble, which had become dilapidated during its stay under the Uniates, was renewed. The consecration of the new robe, made in the Ovchinnikovs' jewelry workshop and costing 1,300 rubles collected by the whole world, took place on September 8 of the same year with the participation of Leonty, Bishop of Kholm and Warsaw, Flavian, Bishop of Lublin and Modest, Bishop of Volyn and Zhitomir. In the year the robe was decorated with pearls and precious stones.
The old chasuble was carefully placed in the sacristy, and then transferred to the church-archaeological museum of the Kholm Brotherhood and placed on a copy of the Kholm Ion of the Mother of God, which was located there in the red corner of the main hall.
In July of the year, due to the evacuation, the Kholm Icon of the Mother of God was taken to Moscow by the key keeper of the Kholm Cathedral, Archpriest Nikolai Gankevich. With the beginning of the persecution of the Church in the year, the icon was secretly transported to Kyiv and placed in the monastery of St. Florus. Then it was secretly taken out of the monastery, and remained hidden in the private homes of believers. The guardians of the icon risked themselves many times for the sake of the image; at one time it was dismantled into separate boards.
However, soon, in July of the year, the icon left the Hill again. Archbishop Hilarion (Ogienko) was forced to leave for the West and took the icon with him, but near Lublin his convoy came under bombardment and the image was saved by Ilaria Bulgakova, cousin of the famous writer Mikhail Bulgakov. It was decided to return the icon to Kholm, and it ended up in the secret custody of Archpriest Gabriel Korobchuk, who was a vicar in Orthodox Cathedral on Danilov Mountain in Kholm. In the year he was forced to leave for Ukraine, where the image was kept secret by his family until the 1990s. Meanwhile, various guesses were made about the fate of the icon, while others considered it lost.
In the year, the daughter of Father Gabriel, Nadezhda Gorlitskaya (Korobchuk), gave the icon for restoration to the Lutsk Museum of the Volyn Icon on the condition of maintaining secrecy. Until a year ago, a limited circle of people from the Kholm region knew about the existence of the icon. After the first stage restoration work, in August of the year, members of the Volyn society "Kholmshchyna" decided to publish the icon and transfer it to the ownership of the Ukrainian state.
Before the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Kholm they pray for protection when attacked by enemies.
Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos before Her Kholmskaya Icon
O Most Holy Virgin Mother of Christ our God, all-powerful intercessor of our country! With fear, faith and love, falling before Your miraculous image, we prayerfully cry: be merciful to us, Your humble and unworthy servant, and do not remember our sins and iniquities, O Good One, but stretch out Your hand to the mercy of the Master, so that He may not turn away His face. from His servants and will not condemn us sinners according to our iniquities, but will deal with us according to His great mercy. Hey, Lady Lady! Be a guide in our lives: enlighten our minds with the light of truth, soften our hearts, strengthen our faith, affirm our hope, grant us the gift of love. Have mercy, our All-Merciful Lady, on Your weak people: guide those who have gone astray to the path of righteousness, bring to their senses those wavering in faith, bring back those who have fallen away from the pious faith of their fathers and all true path teach Save by Thy mercy and have mercy on Thy faithful people, the Orthodox bishopric and the entire church rank. Do not reject the same with Your mercy and accept all the rulers of our country under Your shelter, teach and instruct them in the right to rule, observing the divine laws. Confirm us in peace and love for each other, so that we may all live a quiet and serene life in unity with each other and, having enjoyed the gifts of earthly blessings, we will not be deprived of the blessings of heavenly mercy for the sake of the Divine. We also pray to You, Lady Theotokos, deliver us from famine, destruction, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, enemy attacks, civil strife, insolent death, pernicious diseases and all kinds of evils around us. Look and hear, O all-merciful Lady, all of us, now falling before the icon of Thy saints and crying out for Thy mercy with tears, quench our sorrows and be a quick Helper to us in all our affairs forever and ever. Amen.
Troparion, tone 5
Just as You, O Most Pure Virgin, bestowed the Mother's blessing on Your most glorious icon on Mount Kholmskaya, so now, despising our many sins, do not leave us, O All-Singing Mother, but remain with us until the end of time and open the doors of heaven to us.
Kontakion, tone 6
The Most Holy Virgin Mother of God, who adorned the Orthodox Church with Her wondrous icons, like stars, and bestowed this wonderful image on the Orthodox people of the land of Kholm, we sing songs of thanksgiving; You, Most Pure One, strengthen us in More Orthodox Faith, let us call Thee: Rejoice, Queen of heaven and earth and loving Mother of all who honor Thee with faith.
Greatness
We magnify Thee, Most Holy Virgin, and venerate Thy venerable icon, which Thou hast glorified since ancient times in the city of Hill.
The Kholm icon of the Most Holy Theotokos dates back to the 11th–12th centuries and is attributed by art historians to the Constantinople school of Byzantine icon painting from the era of Douces, Komnenos and Angels.
This is evidenced by the special sophistication and perfection of the image, combined with extremely high level artistic performance.
Iconographically, the Kholm icon belongs to the type of Hodegetria of the Right Hand. One of the most important details, distinguishable in ultraviolet radiation– the Baby’s foot, with the heel turned towards the viewer.
This iconographic feature is filled with deep theological meaning, closely related to the text of the book of Genesis (Genesis 3:15) about the seed of the woman, which will bruise the tempter on the head, and the tempter, who will bruise the heel of the one born of the woman.
The veneration of this miraculous icon began a long time ago, so lists have been made from it from ancient times to the present day. These modern lists give you a better look at the iconographic features.
Various legends have been preserved about the origin of the Kholm Icon. According to the most famous of them, the icon was brought as a gift to the city of Kholm by the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir himself. Perhaps she was taken from Byzantium with the dowry of his wife Anna, the daughter of the Byzantine emperor.
Historical sources confirm the presence of the icon in the 13th century in the Hill, largest city Galicia-Volyn principality Kievan Rus. Nowadays the city is called Chelm (Republic of Poland).
The Kholm icon is written on a cypress board consisting of three parts. In ancient times, this icon was decorated with a precious chasuble made of cast gold and Byzantine enamels. Around 1242, during the attack of the Tatars, Batu's regiments came to southwestern Rus' and plundered the city of Kholm, in which the shrine was located. The icon itself suffered from them. The Tatars removed her robe, damaging the image in some places.
In our time, the image shows two ulcers that were inflicted by the Tatars: one on the left shoulder of the image of the Virgin Mary (from a saber strike) and the other on the right hand (from an arrow). There is a legend that the wicked Tatars who robbed the temple were immediately punished: they became blind.
In 1255 the city of Kholm burned. The fire was so strong that it was visible from Lviv and destroyed all the churches. But the icon survived. Prince Daniil then built a beautiful cathedral for her on Kholmskaya Mountain
Many things happened before this icon. miraculous phenomena. Stories about them are contained in the book of Archimandrite Ioaniky Golyatovsky “New Heaven”.
During the Tatar invasion in 1259, Burundai's troops approached the city of Kholm. Two pious princesses lived in the city at that time. Seeing the impossibility of defending themselves by force of arms, they, together with other people, turned in prayer before the Kholmsk Icon of the Mother of God with a request to take the city under their protection. After this, the women took from the temple miraculous icon and placed it opposite the enemy troops on the wall of the fortress. Some kind of obsession came over the Tatar army: the mountain on which the city was located began to seem steeper and higher to them than it actually was. And the closer they got, the more terrible they became. Panicked, they began to run away. So, wonderful help, the city was saved.
With the transfer of Kholmsky Bishop Dionysius Zbiruysky to the union in 1596, the Kholmsky Cathedral and the icon ended up in the hands of the Uniates. In 1650, during the uprising of the Cossacks of Bohdan Khmelnytsky against the rule of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Uniates had to return it Orthodox bishop Dionysius Balaban according to the Zboriv agreement, but the icon was hidden. A year later, the shrine was discovered in a chest buried in the ground and disguised with grain and sheaves of straw. The following year, 1651, the war broke out with renewed vigor, and the icon fell into the hands of the Poles. King Jan Casimir took the Kholm icon with him on a campaign, after which it was exhibited in Warsaw in the chapel of the royal palace, where it remained until 1652. Jan-Kazimir attributed the victory over the Cossacks to the help of the Mother of God, whose Kholm icon was with him on the campaign. In gratitude for this, the king resumed the Uniate see in Kholm and gave it the icon.
On April 29, 1652, it was installed in the Cathedral of Kholm. Meanwhile, the war between Poland and Ukraine broke out with renewed vigor. Then the king again took the miraculous Kholm icon on the battlefield, but at Zhvanets the Polish army was defeated. After this, the shrine was returned to the Kholm Cathedral, where it remained until the beginning of our century.
During the reign of the union, there were attempts to Latinize the miraculous icon and the Kholm Cathedral itself. The icon was placed in the altar, above the main altar (according to Catholic custom). In 1765, the Pope crowned the icon with two golden crowns. A silver plate with bas-reliefs and Latin inscriptions was attached to the front of the throne above which it was located (today it is kept in the Moscow Armory).
In the first half of the 19th century. The Kholm icon and the cathedral were returned to the Orthodox community. The shrine was solemnly installed in the iconostasis above Royal Gates. In 1888, the miraculous image was venerated Russian Emperor Alexander II with his family.
When in 1915 there was a threat of the city being captured by the Austrian army, the Kholm icon was evacuated to Moscow. But a few years later, saving it from the Bolsheviks, the icon was secretly transported to Kyiv and placed in the Florovsky Monastery on Podol. Soon after Civil War The Soviet government undertook a massive confiscation of church valuables under the pretext of raising funds to help the famine-stricken in the Volga region. Then the icon frame was decorated gems, so there was a real danger that she would be expropriated. Believers from among the intelligentsia divided the relic into parts and hid it in their homes. The icon, painted on three cypress boards, had to be separated. The security officers managed to find only the precious salary. He was discovered during a search of the ethnographer Kornilovich. Although the frame was a very valuable thing, it was made relatively recently - at the end of the 19th century. The icon itself is about a thousand years old.
It was restored during the Second World War. It was like this: the famous Ukrainian scientist and theologian Ivan Ogienko (Metropolitan Hilarion) became the archbishop of the German-occupied Hill. He knew who kept parts of the icon of the Mother of God of Kholm, and he sent a man to Kyiv, providing him with money for the restoration of the icon. In 1943 it was again placed in the Hill Cathedral. Before the liberation of the city Soviet troops The Metropolitan tried to take out church rarities, but the train in which they were transported was bombed in Poland. A simple Christian woman named Bulgakova saved the icon from the fire. Having tied it to her back (the image of the Mother of God of Kholm is quite large, so it is most convenient to carry it in this way), the woman walked at night and hid in haystacks during the day. She reached Lublin, and the priests there transported the shrine to Ukraine. So she ended up in the house of priest Gabriel, the father of Nadezhda Gorlitskaya, in whose apartment she was discovered in 1996 by employees of the Lutsk Museum of the Volyn Icon. The shrine was hidden from prying eyes in a closet, and only for large Orthodox holidays For example, on the day of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, the family held a prayer service at home before the miraculous image, curtaining the windows for secrecy. The woman herself offered to donate it to the Ukrainian state free of charge on the condition that the image would remain in Lutsk.
Since then the restoration miraculous image The head of the restoration workshop of the Museum of Volyn Icons, Anatoly Kvasyuk, is working on the Mother of God.
If you would like to learn more about the aspects of scholarly research into this ancient icon, please visit
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Currently, the Kholm Icon of the Mother of God is on display in the Museum of the Volyn Icon in Lutsk.
The celebration of the icon was established on September 8, Art.
Only 100 years after the destruction of the Hill, the holy icon was found during excavations and solemnly installed in the restored Kholm Cathedral. In our time, the image shows two ulcers that were inflicted by the Tatars: one on her left shoulder (from a saber strike) and the other on her right hand from an arrow. There is a pious legend that the wicked Tatars who robbed the temple were immediately punished: they became blind. With the transfer of Kholmsky Bishop Dionysius Zbiruysky to the union in 1596, the Kholmsky Cathedral and the icon ended up in the hands of the Uniates. In 1650, during the uprising of the Cossacks of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Ukraine, the Uniates were forced to return it to the Orthodox Bishop Dionysius Balaban under the Zboriv Agreement; at the same time they tried to hide the icon. Therefore, it was found only after a certain time in the dungeon. The following year, 1651, the war broke out with renewed vigor, and the icon again fell into the hands of the Poles. On the advice of Jacob Sushi, the Polish king Jan Casimir took the Kholm icon with him on a campaign, after which it was exhibited in Warsaw in the chapel of the royal palace, where it remained until 1652. Jan Casimir attributed the victory over the Cossacks to the help of the Mother of God, to whom the Kholm icon was on a hike with him. In gratitude for this, the king resumed the Uniate see in Kholm and gave it the icon. On April 29, 1652, it was installed in the Cathedral of Kholm. Meanwhile, the war between Poland and Ukraine broke out with renewed vigor. Then the king again took the miraculous Kholm icon to the battlefield, but it did not bring him help. At Zhvanets, the Polish army was defeated. After this, the Kholmsky shrine was returned to the Kholmsky Cathedral, where it remained until the beginning of our century. During the reign of the union, there were attempts to Latinize the miraculous icon and the Kholm Cathedral itself. The icon was placed in the altar, above the main altar (according to Catholic custom). In 1765, the Pope crowned the icon with two golden crowns. A silver plate with bar-reliefs and Latin inscriptions was attached to the front of the throne above which it was located (today it is kept in the Moscow Armory). In the first half of the 19th century. The Kholm icon and the cathedral were returned to the Orthodox community. The shrine was solemnly installed in the iconostasis above the Royal Doors. Many miraculous phenomena took place before this icon. Stories about them are contained in a separate book by Archimandrite Ioaniky Golyatovsky, “New Heaven.” During the invasion of the Tatars during the time of Batu, some of their detachments approached the city. Hill. Two pious princesses lived in the city at that time. Seeing the impossibility of defending themselves by force of arms, they, together with other people, turned in prayer before the Kholmsk Icon of the Mother of God with a request to take the city under their protection. After this, the women took the miraculous icon from the temple and placed it opposite the enemy troops on the wall of the fortress. Some kind of obsession came over the Tatar army: the mountain on which the city was located began to seem steeper and higher to them than it actually was. And the closer they got, the stronger it seemed to them. Panicked, they began to run away. Thus, with miraculous help, the city was saved. Currently, this greatest of the shrines of Christianity is kept in an armored glass safe in the Museum of the Volyn Icon in the city of Lutsk and is exhibited for veneration on major religious days.
Who did the image of the Kholm Mother of God protect?On the eve of the anniversary, on August 3, 2012, Kholm will celebrate the 235th anniversary of the granting of the status of a county town, there is a reason to return to the roots, to the facts of distant history, in which there are many coincidences that mislead our contemporaries.
About fifteen years ago I received a letter from Poland. Cultural worker and amateur local historian Andrzej Piwowarczyk from the city of Chelm asked to solve a difficult problem for him. Which Hill is shown in the old photograph? Pskovsky on Lovat or Volynsky in Poland. After all, before the revolution, Poland was part of Russia, and Galician Hill in Volyn had the same name as our city. Then Andrzej sent a postcard of our Vladimirsky Boulevard. I pointed out this coincidence in my response letter. This is how our correspondence began. Back then, my Polish friend wanted to publish a joint book about the history and modernity of our namesake cities. But this intention failed to come true. Relations between our countries were very cool, and even now, I think, it would be very difficult to implement such an idea. In memory of our correspondence, he gave me a Polish-Russian and Russian-Polish dictionary in one book and a voluminous guidebook “Chelm i okolice” by Zdzislaw Kazimirzyk in Polish. This illustrated book summarizes the 610-year history of the Chelm region from 1392 to 2002. Considering the uniqueness of this publication (no one in Kholm has such a book), I donated it to our museum. And it was no coincidence that he gave it. Because there is often confusion between the events of our and Polish history.
Here's an example. One of our fellow countrymen, who has lived in another city for a long time, discovered on the Internet the memoirs of a staff officer from the First World War. He described how Emperor Nicholas II arrived at the front in the city of Kholm with an inspection of troops and warehouses at the railway station. She was not at all embarrassed that there had never been a railway, and in 1915 the front was many hundreds of miles to the west. The lady was sincerely surprised how such a big event went unnoticed by local historians and was not reflected in museum exhibitions. Although Nicholas II was never in Kholm, and the staff captain described the inspection of troops located at the front against Austria-Hungary in Kholm in the Carpathians.
I was recently told about another misconception in our museum. Its director Natalya Alekseeva and methodologist Elizaveta Semyonova were surprised to learn that “a particularly revered icon in ancient Kholm was the miraculous icon of the Kholm Mother of God, the intercessor of the city.” This discovery appeared on the Internet?! The impetus was given by the phrase: “According to the testimony of K.K. Sluchevsky, who visited Kholm in 1897, on the Klin side of the city for a long time, at the confluence of the Kunya and the Lovat, there stood an ancient chapel with a wooden candle one and a half arshins high, four inches in diameter and the inscription: “May 21, 997 (?) it was erected Kholmsky townsman Petrov." A particularly revered icon in the city was the miraculous image of the Mother of God “Kholmskaya” - the intercessor of the city. The icon had traces of wounds on itself: one on the left shoulder, left, according to legend, from a blow from the sword of a Tatar, who immediately went blind, and the other on the right hand from an arrow from a Lithuanian warrior, after which his head was twisted to the side.” It appeared on the website http://druzhkovka-news.ru/istoriya-goroda-xolm/. Let me point out right away that there is an error in the quote. K. Sluchevsky visited the Hill with Grand Duke Vladimir not in 1897, but in 1887. Moreover, for the second time. And he wrote his essays after his first visit in 1885.In the wake of delusion
So, I find information about the author of the above quote. Konstantin Sluchevsky served in the Main Directorate for Press Affairs, in the Ministry of State Property. In 1885, in the retinue of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, he traveled through the north and north-west of Russia. On May 28-29 they stayed in the city of Kholm, Pskov province. In 1876, a two-volume volume of essays by K.K. Sluchevsky “Across the North-West of Russia” was published in St. Petersburg. Volume one was called "Across the North of Russia." This includes a short essay on "The Hill" (pp. 112-114). By the way, this information was taken from our native newspaper “Mayak” and posted on the Internet. Next – brief retelling Sluchevsky’s essay, but not a word about the miraculous icon. Perhaps the author of the presentation deliberately overlooked it? I turn to the original source: “Of the antiquities available, mention should be made of the “Gorodishche” of Novgorod times, surrounded by three sides Lovat... On the Klin side of the city, in the chapel, a wooden candle one and a half arshins long, painted with flowers, four inches thick, with an inscription stating that on May 21, 997, it was placed by the Kholm townsman Petrov. Of course, this year is incorrect, but the candle is undoubtedly ancient, probably from the late 17th century.” And not a word about the miraculous icon. I find about her in another source - a historical essay by N.V. Zateyshchikov-Second “Mr. Hill of the Pskov province", published in 1891. He writes: “In the local Epiphany Cathedral, as well as in the Church of the Resurrection, there is an exact copy of the miraculous image of the city’s Intercessor - Our Lady of Kholm. This image has signs of ulcers: one on the left shoulder, the other on the right hand of the Mother of God; the first occurred from a blow struck by a Tatar with a sword, who was struck blind for this; the other - from an arrow, also shot by a warrior, whose head then turned to the side.” The author cites several more legends. Precisely legends. Because here he writes that “...in 1238, from Torzhok the Tatars went along the Seliger route..., but, not reaching a hundred miles to Novgorod, they returned to the southeast.” This means that there was no Tatar assault on the Kholm fortress and the Tatar warriors could not have injured the miraculous icon. This is also confirmed by K. Sluchevsky in his essay: “The Tatars never reached the Hill...” But what about the trace of the wound from the Tatar’s sword?
History of Our Lady of Kholm
So what authentic icon Our Lady of Kholm has nothing to do with our Hill. It would be tempting to appropriate such a significant Christian shrine for yourself, but...
According to the materials of the Kholm Holy Mother of God Brotherhood for 1916, the Kholm icon is one of the oldest. Tradition says that it was written by the holy apostle and evangelist Luke and brought to Russia from Constantinople. At his baptism in the city of Korsun, Saint Prince Vladimir received from the Greek emperors Vasily and Constantine many different sacred objects, including the icon of the Mother of God, which he subsequently presented to the city of Kholm and to which he entrusted the entire Kholm country. In Russian history, the Kholm icon was first mentioned in 1240, when the city was surrounded by Tatar hordes with the cruel fire and sword of Batu Khan, who had passed through Rus'. The city was threatened with complete destruction, and its inhabitants threatened with massacres or terrible captivity. The townspeople, overcome by fear, began to fervently pray before the icon of the Mother of God, and the prince’s two daughters, the Kholm princesses, vowed to devote their entire lives to serving God and renovating the Church of the Most Pure One. And their prayer was heard. When the residents brought the miraculous icon to the ramparts surrounding the mountain on which the churches and the monastery stood, it seemed to the Tatars that the city was fortified with high impregnable walls and towers, and the mountain that they needed to conquer rose up to the very clouds. And they retreated from the city in fear. In 1254, when Prince Daniil of Galitsky received the “crown and title,” upon entering the Hill, he first of all came to the Church of the Mother of God, fell on his knees and fervently prayed to the Most Pure One. In 1499 the Hill was attacked Crimean Tatars and plundered the city...Recognized as miraculous
Only 100 years after the destruction of the Hill, the holy icon was found during excavations and solemnly installed in the restored Kholm Cathedral. With the transition of the Kholm bishop to a union with Catholicism in 1596, the cathedral and the icon ended up in the hands of the Uniates. In 1650, during the uprising led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Ukraine, the Uniates were forced to return the shrine to the Orthodox bishop Dionysius Balaban. In 1651, the Polish king Jan Casimir restored the Uniate see in Kholm and gave it the icon. On April 29, 1652, it was installed in the Cathedral of the Hill. In the 18th century, the icon was officially recognized as miraculous. In 1765, the image of the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus was crowned with golden crowns by Pope Clement XII. In 1875, the Kholm Uniate diocese was annexed to the Russian Orthodox Church, and on September 2, 1888, she prayed before the Kholmskaya Mother of God royal family: emperor Alexander III, his wife Maria Fedorovna, Grand Duke Nikolai Alexandrovich (future Emperor Nicholas II). In 1915, during the German-Austrian offensive, the icon was taken to Moscow, and in 1918 to Kyiv. From 1923 to 1941, the image of the Mother of God was hidden in the private apartments of Christian believers in Kyiv. On September 27, 1943, the image of the Virgin Mary returned to the Cathedral of the Hill. In July 1944, Metropolitan Hilarion (Ogienko) decided to leave for the West and took the icon with him, but near Lublin his convoy came under bombardment. The image was saved by Ilaria (Bulgakova), the cousin of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov. The icon ended up in the secret custody of Archpriest Gabriel Korobchuk, who was a vicar at the Orthodox Cathedral on Danilov Mountain in Kholm. In 1945, he was forced to leave for Ukraine, where the image was kept secret by his family. In 1996, the owner of the icon, Nadezhda Gorlitskaya, donated the Kholm icon to the Lutsk Museum of Volyn Icons. According to the will of the Gorlitskaya family, the icon cannot leave Lutsk. For ten years, the restoration was carried out by Anatoly Kvasyuk, who was awarded the Order of St. Prince Equal to the Apostles Vladimir, second degree.
The copy of the icon is now in the Basilica of the Nativity Holy Virgin Mary in Kholm (Chelm). And no one knows where the lists that Zateyshchikov-II wrote about...Anatoly PIMANOV
(Published in the newspaper "MAYAK")Image of the Kholmskaya Mother of God icon
Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Chelm
Museum of Volyn Icon in Lutsk
