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Thank you to Mart and Qrt.S for your replies. I'm sorry I've been so slow to respond, I've been bogged down in work. It is all really helpful and interesting, and I can quite understand that some of it is hard to say for sure when archives and historical sources get destroyed. It's a shame you both ...

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Thank you to the 319 people who have looked at this post. I'm just amazed that so far no one has been able to decipher it!
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Can anyone tell me more about this icon, please? I think it is from Moscow, from the mark, but after much research it seems like the maker's mark is a vyaz letter used in iconography, or possibly a combination of Cyrillic letters. Is this a monastery mark? Or is it simply another tourist piece? I've...