depicting the Vladimirskaya Mother of God surrounded by a silver halo decorated with garnets and crystals, the repousse silver-gilt oklad featuring, from upper right clockwise, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, St. Olga of Kiev, Sergius of Radonezh, and a guardian angel, below, the "Zastupnitsa userdnaya" prayer ("Zealous Intercessor," also known as the "Prayer Before the Kazanskaya Mother of God"), with ornamental basma leaf border; egg tempera, gold leaf and gesso on wood panel, with raised border kovcheg, silver-gilt oklad, two splints inserted on the back, one missing, the oklad marked with 84 standard, assayer’s mark A.Sh. in Cyrillic for Aleksandr Timofeevich Shevyakov, 1896, Imperial workmaster’s mark M. Ovchinnikov in Cyrillic for Mikhail Ovchinnikov; dimensions: 26.8 x 22.5 cm (10 1/2 x 8 7/8 in.)