ACAR, Serkan Ege Üniversitesi - Edebiyat Fakültesi - Tarih Bölümü, Genel Türk Tarihi Anabilim Dal, Turkey

Legend of the Icon of Our Lady of Vladimir and Dream of Timur Beg

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The icon of Our Lady of Vladimir was one of the most important symbols of national consciousness in old Russia. Historians have noted the Byzantine influence in descriptions of Muscovite power and largely ignored the value of the icon in mediaeval Russian political thought. It is considered that the importance of the icon is derived from old tales about the invasion of Tamerlane in 1395. Metropolitan Makarii developed the legend as part of a major rewriting of texts designed to sustain the imperial pretensions of Ivan IV, whom he crowned as Tsar in 1547, and to influence state policy. The Vladimir icon of Our Lady remained in the Kremlin as a popular symbol of the substance and the continuity of Russian imperial and national aspirations long after the dynasty of the Rurikides died out at the end of the sixteenth century.

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Timur. Beg , Icon of Mothder. of God , Russia , Andrey Bogolubskii

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