About 1497. About 1497.

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The saint is depicted in a white chasuble with brownish-red crosses and a greenish omophorion with black crosses. The palm of his right hand is open; he is holding a book in his left hand. The saint is depicted in a white chasuble with brownish-red crosses and a greenish omophorion with black crosses. The palm of his right hand is open; he is holding a book in his left hand. 

Saint Basil the Great was the bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), a preacher, a church writer and a theologian. He is one of three Cappadocian Fathers along with Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa.

The icon was restored by A.V. Neretin and A.I. Gogoleva in the All-Union Research Institute for Restoration in 1975 and 1979.