ikon
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When they found it by an ikon and paper flowers, she vainly implored them to leave its contents behind.
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For as long as an ikon hung in the corner of a Russian izba, Patriarch Sergei would always be right.
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Since then the artist's famed picture of his mother has become such a Mother's Day ikon* that a separate study of the Woman Behind the Painting became inevitable.
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They get their stocks mostly from tourists � often in exchange for "ancient" ikons fresh from the ikon factory � but can get almost any item through a smuggling network centered in Odessa.
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She fell on her knees in her garret before the ikon, and, with floods of bitter tears, pressed her face on the dirt-stained floor.
From A Russian Gentleman by Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)
