Hidden and Triumphant

Irina Yazykova

During the darkest years of the Soviet Union, iconographers kept alive one of Russia's brightest lights - the icon.

The 1920s-30s were a time of mass arrests and executions.  With churches demolished and defiled and monasteries disbanded, there was every reason to fear for the continued existance of the Church itself.  Revisionist propaganda was decimating the clergy, and authorities were waging a campaign of anti-religious sentiment in every corner of the country.  Not the best time, one would think, to be painting icons.

194 pages
Hardcover
Published 2010
size: 9.25 x 6.5 x 1.0"
ISBN-13: 978-1-55725-564-8