Icon of Saint Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow. 19th century. Saint Alexis holds an open Gospel chapter 10 (verses 9 and 10) of Saint John. Part of a fresco transposed onto an icon board ? 44 x 36 cm Missing. From the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, consecrated in 1883 and destroyed in 1931 by the Bolsheviks. [RUSSIAN ART]