Zhdan Dementiev, 1630

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Forefather Cainan is depicted full-length and is turned to the central image. He is dressed in the garments that are traditional for Old Testament forefathers — a robe and a himation. He is holding an open scroll with his prophecy in his right hand. The margins, the halo and the background of the icon are decorated with a copper cover with stamping. 

Cainan (also spelled Kenan) was a son of Enosh, a grandson of Seth and a great-grandson of Adam and Eve — the first man and woman. He was among ten Biblical patriarchs who lived before the Great Flood. Like all of them, he lived an extraordinary long life to serve as a living keeper and exponent of the entrusted promise. Cainan died at the age of 910.

The icon was restored by the team of I.P. Yaroslavtsev in the Inter-Regional Special Scientific Restoration Workshop of the Rosrestavratsiya Association in the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR in 1978-1979.