Antimension in printed satin. Moscow, Synod Printing House, circa 1780. The central section depicts the entombment, with instruments on either side and the four evangelists in the four corners. The upper cartouche features a printed text, common to all copies, and a handwritten section giving the name of the church or chapel for which it was consecrated. The lower cartouche also features a general printed text "By order of our most pious great sovereign, Empress Ekaterina Alexeevna of all Russia...", completed by the handwritten name of the bishop who consecrated the copy, followed by a pre-printed line to fill in, giving the date of consecration both in the church calendar from the creation of the world and in the civil Julian calendar. Engraved on copper by Vasily Andreevich Ikonnikov (1729-1774) in 1767 from a design by Semen Vtorov at the Synod Printing House. It is a variant of the mid-1760s antimension by the folk and religious prints dealer Mikhail M. Artemiev (1724-1773), updated in Baroque style. This model was used under Catherine II, Alexander I and Nicholas I until 1832. The name of the church concerned remains illegible: ".... du Sauveur" (bottom right of the upper cartouche), as does the name of the bishop who consecrated this antimension (third line of the lower cartouche). On the other hand, the date is relatively legible: 7291 since the creation of the world (1783) and 1783 since the Nativity of Christ (i.e. from January 1 to August 31) and probably the 4th of May. On the reverse is sewn a small bag supposed to contain a relic. 54 x 45 cm Bibliography Konstantin Nikolsky, "Les Antimension de l'Église Orthodoxe", Saint Petersburg, 1872. Hieromonk Vladimir (Murav'ev), "Overview of the Antimenses Collection of the Moscow Diocesan Administration from the Church-Historical Cabinet of the Kolomna Theological Seminary", Church Art and Archeology Review, no. 1 (6). 2022, pp. 44-57. Catalog of the exhibition of Russian antimensions printed from the 17th to the 19th century. Moscow, 2024. [RUSSIAN ART]