The icon shows miraculous transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor before His disciples - the apostles Peter, James, John, the phenomenon of Elijah and the prophets, Moses, and their meeting with Christ. The composition of complex scenes of Christ's ascension to the apostles on Mount Tabor and the convergence of the mountain, as well as depictions of prophets, angels brought. The icon can presumably be considered as a work of Theophanes the Greek, or his studio

Icon is one of the many variants of the delightfulness. Epithet "the Don" is linked with the legend of the miraculous help the Icon provided to the Dmitry Donskoy army in Kulikovo battle in 1380. Initially, the Icon was kept in the Assumption Cathedral of the city of Kolomna. Under Ivan the Terrible ruling, the icon was transferred to the Annunciation Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin.