This Holy Icon appeared on May 1, 1647, to a farmer named Andrew Ivanov, near the town of Bol’shiye Kuznetsy [Great Forge], about 16 kilometers from Tsarevokokshay in the province of Kazan. The Icon, carved on slate, was framed with silver and gold. The mother of God was depicted with the Myrrh-bearing Women, and for that reason is known as the Myrrh-bearers’ or Tsarevokokshaisk Icon.. Andrew prayed before it and took the Icon into his home. Many miracles began to flow from this icon, and it was soon taken to Moscow, where it was welcomed by the tsar and by the patriarch. Upon directing its return, the tsar ordered that a monastery be erected on the site of its appearance; it remained in that monastery until the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.