Hand drawn icon with the crucifixion of Jesus. The condition is very good. Materials - wood, tempera. In the images of ancient icons, the crucifixion is conveyed discreetly, since nothing can express what is happening! Therefore, the icon painter resorts to the strict, laconic and conditional language of symbols. The icon is only a symbolic representation of Christ's Divine Sacrifice, whose universal essence is incomprehensible and unimaginable. The imaginary space is recreated through the golden background of the icon. In it, the cross with the crucified God-man rises from the earth to the sky - like a bridge connecting the earthly and heavenly kingdoms. Because only the Crucifixion can raise man from his vain life to experience eternity. The Savior seems to embrace the world with his hands on the cross. Under the fortified cross at its foot is the black cave, personifying the hidden, the invisible. In the bowels of the earth, the dust of the first man Adam is seen, as a symbolic juxtaposition of the First man and the New Adam - the God-man Christ, as it is said "as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall live; but each in his own way: the beginning is the resurrected Christ, then, at his coming, those who belong to Christ will be resurrected "(1 Cor. 15: 22-3). Immediately next to the cross is the Holy Virgin with her hands raised to her chest. Also full-length, head bowed, is St. John the Theologian, the disciple whom Jesus commissioned to care for His mother. Women are also depicted, as well as the Roman soldier Longinus with his hand raised high. Behind them are the walls of Jerusalem.