Father Nazarius Polataiko, joins Archbishop Benjamin Peterson for a blessing of the church ceremony at Holy Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church in Silver Lake on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. ..

Russian expatriates in Manhattan last week used Religion to plague Art for the sake of Politics. The excuse was an exhibition of Russian Orthodox icons loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by ...

Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Saturday dismissed his expert on art and restoration for obstructing the transfer of a historic 15th-century Trinity icon to the Church ...

Morsink, a leading specialist in Russian icons, Greek icons and Ethiopian and Byzantine art, officially came on board July 1, 2022, but had to lead the museum remotely for the first couple of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to hand over the historic 15th-century Trinity icon from a museum to the Russian Orthodox Church because of its importance to believers, the Kremlin's ...

Russia's most famous icon -- the Trinity by Andrei Rublev -- was officially transferred to the use of Russia's Orthodox Church for a period of 49 years, despite protests from Russia's museum ...

Flower girls follow the priests before a service at Holy Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church in Silver Lake on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. .. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer) ...