Vladimir Putin has given one of Russia’s most famous religious icons to the Russian Orthodox Church, seemingly as a thank-you for its support for his invasion of Ukraine.
The decision to move the 600-year-old painting from a museum has been criticised as reckless due its fragile condition.
Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, presided over a Sunday service at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow next to the 15th century “Trinity”, by the medieval painter Andrei Rublev.
“President Putin has made a historic decision to return this miraculous icon,” he said. “The icon will be in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour for a year so that both Muscovites and guests of the capital can bow to this great shrine.”
Art experts describe the “Trinity” as a masterpiece by “Russia’s most important medieval artist”. It shows three angels considered to be the Holy Trinity and the embodiment of unity, peace, harmony, love and humility.
Video footage showed thousands of Russians queuing up to see the work, held in a glass cabinet and guarded by two policemen.
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