Christ the Redeemer is anicon discovered by accident in a dilapidated woodshed nearZvenigorod in 1919. With several other icons stored nearby, it was attributed as the work ofAndrei Rublev, painted for one of Zvenigorod cathedrals in the 1420s. It is exhibited in theTretyakov Gallery ofMoscow.[1][2]
After the intense wear over the years, it went over a restoration in 1956, after thede-Stalinization of theSoviet Union.