The chromolithograph titled “The Transfer of the Holy Relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov by His Imperial Majesty and the Grand Dukes from the Church of Zosimas and Savvatiy to the Sarov Dormition Cathedral on July 18, 1903” was produced at the printing house of Yefim Ivanovich Fesenko. In the central field of the chromolithograph is the seal “Blessing of the Sarov Monastery.” The chromolithograph was donated to the museum by the descendants of those who witnessed the celebrations of the canonization of St. Seraphim of Sarov.
The lithograph depicts a historical event. This is a solemn procession around the Holy Dormition Cathedral with the relics of the holy elder, carried on the shoulders of the autocrat of the Russian state, his uncles, brothers, and archbishops of the church. The relics of the saint are reverently transferred from the church of the holy Zosimas and Savvatiy of Solovki to the main cathedral of the Sarov Monastery, consecrated in the name of the Dormition of the Mother of God. There, the honorable remains of the saint will be placed in a precious reliquary situated between two southern pillars of the church.
The events are described in
the book “Emperor Nicholas II in Nizhny Novgorod in 1896, 1903, and 1913”,
