The Trinity icon was created by the Russian painter in the 15th century to honor the medieval St. Sergius of Radonezh. The image is believed to represent the three persons of God. Beginning in ...

Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the ...

The icon shows ... Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin hung in a cathedral in the capital, Tbilisi. The icon depicts scenes from the life of St Matrona of Moscow, a 20th Century Russian visionary ...

Then it will return here, to its historic birthplace," he said on Saturday evening while celebrating a service at the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius ... of the icon at a time when the Russian ...

Officials also noted that Lenin monuments have been “dismantled or moved to other places” in Russian cities including St Petersburg and ... brutal Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin at one of ...