The Kursk Root Icon of the Sign is an icon of Theotokos of the Sign, apparently painted in the thirteenth century and discovered in a forest near Kursk c. 1295.
Kursk is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. It has a population of 440,052.
Theotokos of Kursk
…of Kursk, Found Among the Roots) is an icon of Theotokos of the Sign, apparently painted in the thirteenth century and discovered in a forest near Kursk c. 1295. The icon was preserved in the Black Hermitage of the Roots (Chornaya Korennaya Pustyn), an abbey founded on the spot of its discovery. It was…