This icon of Our Lady of Kazan was created in the middle of the 17th century by an unknown icon painter. It comes from the St. Nicholas Church in Murom. In the centre of the icon there are images of the Virgin and the Child. Perimeter images represent miracles that happened by virtue of this icon. Similar miraculous icons of the Mother of God with the miracles performed by her were widespread in Russia from the middle of the 16th century.

The miraculous image appears in fifteen scenes, yet it differs from the main image in the middle of the icon in colour and in details. For example, on the second image from above, the icon is completely painted in scarlet, only the contours of the image are shown through. Using the scarlet pigment, the iconographer sought to show the radiance emanating from the icon.

Inscriptions to marginal scenes are poorly preserved. The remaining ones are quotes or retellings of the text by the Kazan Metropolitan Hermogenes, who later became the patriarch. His text is called The Tale of the Appearance and Miracles of the Icon of Our Lady of Kazan. In the tale, the author narrates about sixteen miraculous healings that occurred with the help of the holy image. Six of them are represented on the Murom icon.

Scenes drawn along the perimeter of the icon are dedicated not only to miracles, but also to the history of acquiring the holy image, its transfer to the Kazan Virgin Mary Monastery, and process of making a replica of the icon. A separate border scene shows how Tsar Ivan the Terrible meets the icon in Moscow.

Images are made quite schematically. For example, the last scene in the lower right corner, which depicts foundation of the Hodigitria cathedral in Kazan, does not show its actual construction. On the scene, the icon painter gave a conventional design of the church, the interior of which is decorated with the miraculous icon.

The scenes of miracles on the icon are shown conventionally as well. They feature healed people praying. In one of the marginal scenes one can see a mother of a child that recovered his sight. She is depicted alone, in a prayer in front of the icon of Our Lady of Kazan. There is an apple on her hand, which the child saw after healing. Despite certain constraint of the compositions, the overall structure of the work is solemn. This is suggested by images of numerous church processions.