This type of iconography spread in the 17th century, after a woman in the village of Palets inNizhny Novgorod received healing having prayed to the icon of the Mother of God. Since that time copies began to be made from the main icon. The first replica appeared in Moscow, it was commissioned by Tsar Mikhail Romanov in 1641. After his death in 1645, the original icon was returned from Moscow to the village.

In the icon replica, Virgin Mary is depicted bust-length and three-quarter turned to Baby Jesus. Holding him in her left arm she is pressing her Son’s hands to her bosom. The Most Holy Theotokos is clad in a long woman’s robe, omophorion, enveloping her from head to toe. There is a nimbus over Mary’s head and above it the master painted a crown, the symbol of sanctity and royalty at the same time.

The master adorned the upper part of the icon with a wreath the shape of which is somewhat reminiscent of the Mother of God’s crown. Sitting on the wreath are five cherubs, the symbol of closeness to God the Father. The background of the icon and the Mother of God’s nimbus is plant ornament. The image is enclosed in an embossed frame with a cast geometric ornament in its lower part.