The icon of the Russian tsars. Protector of the home and family. Patroness of brides.
Before marrying great Russian princes, foreign princesses would convert to Orthodoxy and receive a new patronymic - Fyodorovna, in honor of the family icon of the Romanovs - the Theodorov Icon of the Mother of God.
According to tradition, the Theodorov Icon of the Mother of God was written by the evangelist Luke.
The image was transferred from Jerusalem to Russian land, but when and by whom remains a mystery.
This ancient miraculous icon is still considered one of the most enigmatic and least studied great relics of the Orthodox Church.