Christ represented standing in a frontal position, his right hand raised in a blessing gesture and his left hand holding the Gospels, to either side of Him in all probability St Varlaam Khutynski and St. Sergius of Radonezh, kneeling in prayer at his feet, in the upper part of the icon, to the right and left of Christ, are angels with the instruments of the Passion, with metal gilded basma 

The icon with later repainting probably from the 19th century, the tsata with a a crack on the left hand side and the upper right part of the crown on Christ's halo missing
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This image is believed to have appeared during the 1512-1522 Russo-Lithuanian war. In 1514 the Russian troops captured Smolensk. Years later a fresco appeared in the wall nich𝐆e of the Frolovsky (Spassky) tower of the Moscow Kremlin, depicting St Sergius of Radonezh and Varlaam of Khutyn kneeling in prayer flanked by angels with the instruments of passion. This image would be later known as the Saviour of Smolensk (Spas Smolensky).