St Georgy the Confessor, St Simeon Stolbinsky and St Liubov, signed M. I. Dikarev, 1892

painted in fine detail against a greyish blue background, with a naturalistically rendered landscape in the lower part, St Georgy wearing bishop vestments, making a sign of blessing with his right hand and holding the Gospels in his other hand, St Simeon depicted half length on top of a pillar dressed as a monk, making a blessing gesture with one hand and holding an open scroll in his other hand, St Liubov holding the martyr cross in her right hand,  at the top two angels holding the Mandylion, signed and dated at the bottom left corner 'Pisal siyu ikonu M.I. Dikarev 1892 goda'   

Some minor retouching, mainly in the gilded border, a fine vertical crack running through the middle border
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Mikhail Ivanovich Dikarev was one of the most famous Russian icon painters of the late 19th and early 20th century. Trained in Mstera, he worked together with Joseph Semenovich Chirikov and Vasily Pavlovich Guryanov for the Emperor Nicholas II and other members of the Imperial family. One of the most famous works of Dikarev is the series of icons which he painted together with Chirikov for the Marble Palace in St. Petersburg.