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# In Tutayev, more than two thousand people walked in a procession of the cross along the right bank of the Volga with an icon that takes thirty men to lift
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- Published: 2026-06-26T11:30:11.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:25:46.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Reportage, Ethnography

In Tutayev, more than two thousand people walked in a procession of the cross along the right bank of the Volga with an icon that takes thirty men to lift. This is the “Saviour Most Merciful” from the Resurrection Cathedral: a half-length Pantocrator with an open Gospel in his left hand and a blessing right hand, about 3.2 metres high and weighing close to three hundred kilograms, one of the largest icons in Russia.

According to tradition, the icon was painted in the early fifteenth century for the dome of the wooden Church of Saints Boris and Gleb, where it served as the “sky” of the temple, that is, one looked at it with one's head thrown back. The church was pulled down long ago, and the three-metre Saviour moved to the stone cathedral. In 1749 Arseny, Metropolitan of Rostov, carried the icon off to his episcopal residence in order to disperse the Old Believers who prayed before it. The icon of the Saviour was returned only after 44 years. The right-bank procession, held on the tenth Sunday after Easter, was instituted in memory of that return.