Illustration for #2 2014 (43), paper 2

Donskoy Monastery. Archdeacon Kholmogorov. March 30/April 12 1925

A sketch in a notebook. Graphite pencil on paper. 17.3 × 10.5 cm

The sketch was made in the Donskoy monastery during the funeral service for the holiest patriarch Tikhon. The inscription at the top right: “and the tribes of the earth shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory”.