Ink pen "Our Lady of Kazan"

The pen "Our Lady of Kazan" is dedicated to one of the most revered Russian shrines!
During the Time of Troubles, Russian squads solemnly, with a procession, carried the Kazan icon to the Kremlin.
Since then, the Kazan miraculous icon has been considered the patroness of the Orthodox Russian people and the deliverer of Russia from the invasion of foreigners, she is most often asked for intercession in troubles and illnesses.
Her iconography represents one of the variants of the Mother of God Odigidria (in Greek, "Guide"), the most common type of image of the Virgin in Byzantine and Russian art.
The fine hand-painted cap is an image of the Kazan Icon in an elegant salary, made by masters of the lacquer miniature of the village of Fedoskino near Moscow, known all over the world for painting black-lacquered papier-mache products.
Modern Fedoskinsky masters of miniature painting, as well as their grandfathers and great-grandfathers, are able to transfer the most complex works of painting and icon painting to the lacquer surface.
This filigree technique requires the highest skill and concentration: even when a large painting is "compressed" to an image that occupies several centimeters, any of its fragments does not lose its expressiveness.
In the center of the gilded silver belt on the middle part of the pen is engraved its name and the text of the liturgical prayer/prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos: "To my Lady Theotokos, Mother of God, preserve and keep me under Your roof, now and ever and forever. Amen to that."
The feather is made of 18K gold and decorated with an engraved image of a cross.
The individual number is printed on the thin upper part of the gilded silver rim on the handle body.