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      Meaningful and dramatic centre of all composition is the trio, in the centre of which there is the image of the Virgin, the patroness of Russia. The composition of the image is not a traditional one - the Virgin has six arms. In icon painting, there are icons where she has three arms. This stimulated the author to go farther, trying to express Her omnipotence. The Virgin looks in the direction of Her object - the victorious Dmitry Donskoy. Pointing at him with one of her hands and simultaneously pointing at St.George with her third hand, the Virgin hand touches the head of Serge of Radonege, symbolizing the spiritual, religious ties of Saint Serge with the spiritual world. Trinity retreats along the Rainbow of Precept. Above them - the Holy Alcove that unites everything into a monolithic force. In the lower part of the composition, a fire is burning of the dark forces of evil, Mamay's troops, and they fall into this fire driven by the Will of Providence

(A.Rekunenko)