About 1497. About 1497.

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The saint is depicted in a white chasuble with dark blue crosses and a white omophorion. He is holding up the closed Gospel with his left hands. His right hand with an open palm of is downward. The saint is depicted in a white chasuble with dark blue crosses and a white omophorion. He is holding up the closed Gospel with his left hands. His right hand with an open palm of is downward.

Saint Nicholas of Myra was an early Christian bishop of the ancient Greek maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor. He is the most venerated saint in the Orthodox church, the wonderworker, the patron saint of sailors, travellers, orphan children and prisoners. He is among those saints who occupied senior positions in the hierarchy of the Orthodox church and became saints serving it. 

The icon was restored by I.Y. Sokolov in the All-Union Research Institute for Restoration in 1976.