1668
Wood, tempera
105 х 62

Below on the depiction of the Kremlin wall in the srednik is an inscription with date: to the right in the lower corner is the artist’s signature: This was painted by the Sovereign’s zograf Pimin, called Simon Ushakov . On the background of the Church of the Assumption are depicted the first Moscow Metropolitan Petr and Prince Ivan Danilovich Kalita. They are planting and watering a tree which seems to grow through the Church of the Assumption, filling the entire surface of the icon with branches. On the branches of the genealogical tree are portraits of the saints of Muscovy, and in the largest medallion at the centre is the image of Our Lady of Vladimir. Beyond the Kremlin wall there stand Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and his first wife Maria Ilinichna, née Miloslavskaya, with their children. Above, in the clouds, is the Saviour, who gives to the angels a wreath and chasuble for Alexei Mikhailovich: the Tsar in Heaven crowns the Tsar on Earth. The depictions of the saints in medallions are placed from bottom to top with certain departures from historical sequence, as if conforming with the «growth» of the tree. On the left branch, behind Metropolitan Petr, we see the fathers of the Russian church: Metropolitans Aleksii, Kiprian, Iona, Photii and Philipp; the Patriarchs Iov and Filaret; Tsars Mikhail Fedorovich, Feodor Ioannovich, and Tsarevich Dmitry. On the right branch in the first medallion is a depiction of the grandfather of Ivan Danilovich Kalita, Prince Alexander Nevsky dressed as a skhimnik. Behind him are the founders and abbots of monasteries near Moscow – saint Nikon Radonezhsky, saint Sergii Radonezhsky, saint Savva Storozhevsky, saint Pafnuty Borovsky, saint Simon the Quiet, saint Andronik and the blessed of Moscow Maxim, Vasily, Ioann Bolshoy Kolpak.

at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 62