Orthodox icons of Jesus Christ the Pantocrator and Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker damaged with fire of candles on the grave of Sofia Schilling, a wife of Russian general Nikolai Schilling, in the underground crypt of the Dormition Church at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. Sofia Ivanovna Schilling, nee Timasheva, born in St Petersburg on December 25, 1884, was a wife of Lieutenant general Nikolai Schilling (1870 - 1946), who served as military officer in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and in the White Army during the Russian Civil War. She lived in exile in Czechos
Orthodox icons of Jesus Christ the Pantocrator and Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker damaged with fire of candles on the grave of Sofia Schilling, a wife of Russian general Nikolai Schilling, in the underground crypt of the Dormition Church at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. Sofia Ivanovna Schilling, nee Timasheva, born in St Petersburg on December 25, 1884, was a wife of Lieutenant general Nikolai Schilling (1870 - 1946), who served as military officer in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and in the White Army during the Russian Civil War. She lived in exile in Czechoslovakia afterward with her husband and died at age 56 on July 26, 1941. Her burial niche is decorated with an orthodox icon of Saint Seraphim of Sarov. Other orthodox icons are beside the burial niche. The Dormition church at the Olsany Cemetery was built in 1924-1925 by the Russian white emigre. The underground crypt was used as a burial place for the most notable persons of the Russian emigration in Czechoslovakia.
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