About 1497.

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The apostle is depicted full-length in a brownish-cherry himation and a dark blue robe. He is holding up the closed Gospel with his both hands. The gilded silver covering with stamping was made in the middle of the 16th century thanks to the donation of the boyar Vasily Mikhaylovich Vorontsov. The apostle is depicted full-length in a brownish-cherry himation and a dark blue robe. He is holding up the closed Gospel with his both hands. The gilded silver covering with stamping was made in the middle of the 16th century thanks to the donation of the boyar Vasily Mikhaylovich Vorontsov. 

Paul the Apostle was the second apostle, but he wasn’t one of the Twelve Apostles and didn’t know Jesus Christ during his lifetime. It was Saint Paul who told the famous words: ‘Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all’. They express very well the meaning of Christianity as the universal religion addressed to all people. 

The icon was restored by I.Y. Sokolov and A.I. Gogoleva in the All-Union Research Institute for Restoration in 1974-1975.