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War and Peace: Orthodox Icons and Putin’s Politics of the Sacred

Smolensk Dionisius Theotokos

The following article, written by Amy Singleton Adams, was first published in Slavic Review Vol. 82 Issue 2, and is republished here with the permission of the author. In Lev Tolstoi’s War and Peace, the icon of the Smolensk Mother of God is carried behind the army as protectress and patriot. Soldiers run to bow to the icon