ST. NICHOLAS GATE AFTER BEING SUBJECTED TO HEAVY GUNEIRE 



The case covering the ikon of St. Nicholas is ruined. The canopy above the ikon is 

 broken and hangs by a thread. The ikon itself, just over the gate, has survived both the 

 guns of Napoleon and of the Bolsheviks. On St. Nicholas' Day this year it was not only 

 decorated with a garland of fresh flowers, but surrounded by a spiritual wreath of popular 

 fervor (see page 387). 



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