Nil Stolbenskii: An Icon and a Carved Wood Sculpture, 19th century

the icon depicting the saint standing before the monastery founded in his name; the sculpture depicting the seated saint

See Graf A.A. Bobrinskii, Narodnye russkie dereviannye izdeliia, part 11, plate 63.

overall good condition
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Nil Stolbenskii was a fifteenth-century monk renowned for his feats of asceticism. In addition to strict fasting and observing silence, he refused to lay down to sleep, choosing instead to allow himself brief naps while leaning on a prop. It is this practice which the sculpture depicts.