The Terebinskaya Icon
14/27 May

 The Terebinskaya Icon of the Theotokos is in the Terebinsk Hermitage of St. Nicholas the Wonder-worker, in Tver Diocese. In this Icon, the Most-holy Theotokos is depicted at waist-length, with arms upraised.  The Divine Infant is depicted at full-length, with outspread arms, and standing on a globe. This Icon is mentioned along with other miraculous icons in various documents of great antiquity, but no detailed accounts of the Icon exist.  It is known that it appeared in 1654 next to the Terebinsk Hermitage, from which it got its name.

The Icon currently in the Terebinsk Hermitage is a copy; the location of the original is unknown.  According to some accounts, it was taken to the St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod.

The St. Nicholas-Terebinsk monastery is in a picturesque area in the Bezhetsk heights on the banks of the river Mologa (which is now the village of Sloboda, Maxatikhin Region).  The Monastery was founded in 1641 on the site of a wooden church that had been erected in 1492 by a landowner named Mikhail Obutkov in the village of Terebeny, and dedicated to Holy Hierarch St. Nicholas. Obutkov moved his most precious icons, including the Terebinsk Icon of the Mother of God, and a miraculous Icon of St. Nicholas, into that Church.

Following the October Revolution, the monastery continued to function. In the early 1930s, the monastery was shut down.  The Bolsheviks confiscated its property, and on its grounds they set up an agricultural fertilizer warehouse.  In 1992, church life in the monastery began again.  In 1995, restoration of the churches began, and in the summer of 1999, the peal of bells in the monastery once again rang out.