Antique Russian Icon of St. John Chrysostom (golden mouthed) known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Ioan Zlatoust,

archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father (c. 347–407).

The Russian Orthodox Church counts him among the Three Holy Hierarchs, together with Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzus.

The icon is painted on a wooden panel and overlaid with gilded silver and shaded cloisonne enamel oklad (riza). The oklad was made in Moscow between 1908 and 1917 by Alexey Egorov.

10 5/8 x 12 1/8 in. (27 x 31 cm)

The back of the icon is covered with its original brown velvet and mounted with a metal plate with engraved presentation inscription.

To the builder of the cathedral,
merchant Ivan Gavrilovich Bushtuev, from grateful parishioners
of village Yazvits of the Rzhev province.