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Can anyone translate Russian into English please? *PICS*

#1 Post by RealBlackStuff » Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:10 am

I got a Russian icon the other day, which has text painted on the front, and some other handwritten text on the back.
The painted text is using old characters that are obsolete in modern Russian.
I would appreciate a word-for-word translation, as well as a 'fluent' translation, if at all possible.
Thank you;
Front: Image
This would be the Title of the icon.

Back: Image
Something to do with Monastery of St. Sebastian(a)
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Re: Can anyone translate Russian into English please? *PICS*

#2 Post by killer » Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:38 am

Sorry, RBS, I have no idea what it means. My reason for posting is to suggest you email the pictures you have posted to the art museum in New York (Met?) or the National Gallery in London. They tend to have experts in this sort of stuff.
Good luck and let us know the answer.
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#3 Post by mattbiernat » Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:18 pm

i am sure there is someone out here who speaks russian

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#4 Post by RealBlackStuff » Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:01 pm

I've got the translations I was looking for, thanks to a fellow Forum member.

The Title is: The Icon of the Sky God's Mother of Pochaev
Explanation here: http://www.icon.lt/list/pochaev.htm

On the back it said: Presented by the Archimandrite Sevastjan, the Chief Priest of Podolsky Lavra (i.e. Russian Orthodox Monastery in Podolsk)

And so this does not remain a mystery, my icon: http://img200.imageshack.us/i/iconfront.jpg/
Not quite as elaborate as the original, but an exceptionally fine specimen of painted figures!
(only Mother & Child, and the mountain with the footprint, the rest is goldleaf.)
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