About 1497. About 1497.

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The feast of Annunciation of the Virgin was established in commemoration of the most important Gospel events – the announcement by the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and give birth to the Son of God Jesus Christ. The feast of Annunciation of the Virgin was established in commemoration of the most important Gospel events – the announcement by the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and give birth to the Son of God Jesus Christ. 

According to the apocryphal gospels, the Holy Virgin was announced the good news by the Archangel at the fountain, and later, in the house where she was spinning purple for the veil of the temple by the lot that fell to her. This apocryphal account is represented in the iconographic depiction of the festival.

The icon was restored by Y.M. Kristi in the All-Union Research Institute for Restoration in 1967.