The "Reigning" Icon of the Mother of God revealed itself to the Russian Orthodox people on 2/15 March 1917, exactly eighty years ago, in the village of Kolomna, near Moscow.
Now concerning the revelation of the icon of the "Reigning" Mother of God. This account was according to personal reflection of Professor Ivan M. Andreyev.
"Soon after the tragic abdication of the Throne by Tsar Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich, which took place on March 2, 1917, throughout Russia extended the news, that namely on this day, in the village of Kolomskoye in the vicinity of Moscow (at 6 versts from the Daniel entrance) there took place the miraculous revelation of a new icon of the Virgin Mother of God, called the "Reigning One", for the reason that the Queen of Heaven was depicted on this icon as the earthly Queen.
