Sputnik: Digest, Issues 9-12Novosti Printing House, 1994 - Russia (Federation) |
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Russians regarded their icons as living people . It was forbidden to wear a hat when standing before an icon , or to put one's legs on a bench and at the same time look at the icons . It was also forbidden to smoke in a hut , the more ...
Russians regarded their icons as living people . It was forbidden to wear a hat when standing before an icon , or to put one's legs on a bench and at the same time look at the icons . It was also forbidden to smoke in a hut , the more ...
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In huts icons were put on a special shelf ; in town flats icons were placed in icon - cases which could be hung on a wall . Unlike the iconostases there was space between the icons on the shelf . That was because of the popular belief ...
In huts icons were put on a special shelf ; in town flats icons were placed in icon - cases which could be hung on a wall . Unlike the iconostases there was space between the icons on the shelf . That was because of the popular belief ...
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This should not be taken literally ; an icon was not carried back and forth every day , but if its owner was temporarily ... memoirs how people from the Urals who had visited Moscow bought candles as a present for their icons at home .
This should not be taken literally ; an icon was not carried back and forth every day , but if its owner was temporarily ... memoirs how people from the Urals who had visited Moscow bought candles as a present for their icons at home .
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