In it's style, Icon belong to Great Panagia (Greek - "vsesvyataya) category. Virgin is represented with vozdetymi prayer in hands and with image of the infant Christ. Christ is depicted in Episcopal robes, a gesture of both hands blessed. Above, the medallions on both sides of the Virgin Mary, are shown Archangels Michael and Gabriel.

In a complex, multi-tier masterpiece portrayed the picture of the world, the last trial of mankind, the resurrection of the dead, infernal scenes of torment and paradise of bliss. Iconography "of Judgment" a based on the texts of the Gospels, the Apocalypse, as well as the works of Ephraim Sirin, palladium Mniha and others.

The icon was painted by Byzantine master at the beginning of XII century. The most famous Russian national holy place, Palladium of the Fatherland. According to chronicles sources, the icon was brought to Russia to Kiev from Constantinople around 1130. However, its actual worship did not begin in Kiev, as in Vladimir, until the icon was moved in 1155 by Prince Andrew Bogolyubsky. From 1480 to 1918, the icon of Our Lady of Vladimir was in the Assumption Cathedral of Moscow Kremlin.

In the old Russian art, are the earliest surviving icons of our Savior Almighty. In Russian iconography of Savior Almighty appeared on the basis of legends about healing Avgar - the King of Edessa, to whom the Savior himself sent a towel, with his wonderfully depicted face.

At the core of the icon's composition - a real historical event: the Suzdal victory over Novgorod during winter 1169-1170 winter. The Icon is a commemoration of the brilliant victory over a superior enemy and a tribute lasting centuries, establishing Novgorod as the city miraculously saved by the icon of Our Lady of Apparition through the miraculous intercession.