ikon

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A sculpture like Saint Sebastian, 1957-58, its bronze skin crusted with the shapes of reclaimed junk that Paolozzi had incorporated into the mold, balances neatly between golem and 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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But the sobor had none of Orthodoxy's historic pomp�not even an ikon to remind the assembled bishops of the glory that once was St. Petersburg.

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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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Upon entering the Spassky Gate, or Gate of the Redeemer, every hat has to be removed in honour of the ikon of the Saviour which is placed above it.

From Russian Life To-day by Bury, Right Rev. Herbert