This miniature rectangular icon from the museum’s collection was created at the beginning of the 20th century at the Moscow enterprise “Metal Printing House of A. Jaco and Company.” It was established in 1884 and was also known as the metal box factory of the “General Society of French Wax in Moscow”. The company of August-Felicia Jaco very quickly joined the production of such icons in the Russian Empire.

The vertically positioned icon “Prayer of Princess Anna to the Cloud Savior” is a small plate bent at the edges for mounting on a board. The edges of the icon were nailed to the wood with four small nails, one on each side. A partially preserved cotton cloth was stretched between the tin part and the board. Over the years, the tin has darkened and become covered with rust. The paint of the drawing has also changed, dirt and scratches have appeared on the enamel. This icon was made by stamping, the image was applied by chromolithography, that is, each color was added separately, applied to a special lithographic plate or stone.

A full-length image of Anna Kashinskaya was made using polychrome (multicolor) metallography. She is placed on the right side of the icon. The saint was depicted in a mantle and a cape, a dark monastic robe, with a halo. Her right hand is pressed to her chest, while her left hand is holding a rosary. Anna Kashinskaya is bowing her head before the blessing of Christ. From above, one can distinguish the inscription in Old Slavonic “Saint Reverend Princess Anna Kashinskaya.” On the left, situated on the banks of the Kashinka River, is the Resurrection Cathedral with a bell tower, where the relics of the saint rested. The image of Jesus Christ is depicted in the upper left corner of the icon. The Savior is placed in the rays of the sun emanating from a dazzling cloud segment. He stretches out his blessing right hand to the saint.

The most widespread iconographic version appeared after the rehabilitation of the veneration of Anna Kashinskaya at the beginning of the 20th century. In monasticism, Sophia, in the schema Anna (circa 1280–1368) was a Tver princess canonized among the saints. She is known for both her dramatic lifetime fate (the death of almost all relatives, internecine) and equally complex posthumous vicissitudes: the troubled times of the Schism of the Russian Church led to the decanonization of the newly glorified saint.