Icon "Kozelshchansk Mother of God"

The Mother of God is shown seated, with the Infant Christ reclining on her lap, holding a cross in his right hand. The Mother of God wears a tunic and a maphorion with stars; Christ wears a chiton. Beside them is a table bearing a cup and a spoon — a characteristic feature of this iconographic type.

The icon is adorned with a riza of gold-colored foil. The halos above the heads of the Mother of God and Christ are applied metalwork, with rays. On the Mother of God's halo is the inscription: "KOZELSHCHANSK M.G." [Mother of God]. In the corners of the icon are four-petaled, three-dimensional flowers. The icon sits in a brown wooden case, under glass.

The icon was made in the 1910s. It was acquired by the museum in 1995 from L. O. Damaskina of Kharkiv.

Legend: in the 19th century the Kozelshchansk Icon of the Mother of God belonged to the Kapnist family and was their family relic. The icon was kept in the village of Kozelshchyna, in Poltava region. Today the Kozelshchansk Icon of the Mother of God is kept in the Krasnohirsk Convent of the Protection (Kyiv eparchy).