the village of blonya, a special icon is called minsk. even in the pre-revolutionary period, this icon was donated by the minsk holy spirit brotherhood, the brotherhood of the blond church of the holy life-giving trinitycupies such a special place of honor in the center of the temple, not far from the altar, people with with their prayers they always resort to this image, asking the mother of god. needs to help, unfortunately, documentary information about the authorship and origin of many shrines has not been preserved, for example, an icon dedicated to the feast of the introduction of the holy mother of god into the temple ; in the foreground there is a biblical story, the mother of god and others in traditional clothes of that time, but in the background behind biblical characters are ladies who, as if by chance, dropped in here... from the catherine era, a dress with crennoline, high wigs and a neckline, well, clearly not fit the plot. in the lower right corner there are also images of men wearing boyar hats, which seems out of place. it would seem that this is a mixture, but art historians know the explanation for this. it was customary for rich people of the russian empire to make donations to c