The prototype of the Moscow myrrh-streaming icon of the Tsar-Martyr was painted in 1996 in California, by the icon painter Pavel Tikhomirov, commissioned by representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
In our reports from the Balkans column, we talk about the monasteries, churches, and Orthodoxy in that region through personal stories of monks, priests, abbots and famous Orthodox Christians of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and…