The image of the Virgin "Protectress of Smolensk," the attribution of
 

Hello, everybody!
Tell me, what is this icon?
What year?
And what it stoimost.Razmer 8.2 x 9.2 x 1.6 cm.
Thank you!

The image of the Virgin " Protectress of Smolensk ."
Hiking pilgrimage icon. end of the 18th century.
 From the inscription that " happened on March 8 5508 year ( in 1789 the Birth of Christ )."
 Or an icon written in this day and it was an event , after which wrote the icon.
 The letter is good, but saddened at the loss of significant likah Virgin and Child .

I completely agree ...
I should specify ... "7297 years (AD) in the month of March the 8th day come to pass."

Yes, of course the year 7297 from creation <! - ~ 1 ~ ->
 
5508 - the year of Christ, a new era

A little questioning about the history of icons, learned that she had brought from Pervouralsk in the 60s.
20th century and it was felt that established in the workshops Nevyansk, the so-called "Belolikaya."

Here Nevyansk Smolensk Hodegetria:

A similar, unusual character of the folds and the proportion of repeated ...