"Oranskaya" Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God appeared in 1634 under the following circumstances: Peter Gladkov, a major landowner in Nizhegorod nurtured a great reverence for the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God in the Dormition Cathedral in Moscow. He ordered a copy of that icon and had it brought to his homeland. Several years later, in a dream he was shown a hill, and instructed to build a church dedicated to the Vladimir Icon at its summit. Going off in search of the designated site, Peter stumbled upon a place over which a light shone, deep in the heart of the forest. Gladkov recognized Slovenskaya Hill as the hill shown to him in his dream. Upon relating everything to Patriarch Joseph, he received a certificate authorizing construction of a church. Peter erected a marble cross on the hill, and began construction of the church, in which the Icon of the Mother of God was later installed; the Icon acquired the name "Oranskaya," and before it, miracles began to occur. Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovitch directed that a monastery be established next to the Church.