The icon of the Holy Trinity is to be left to the church at the behest of Kremlin chief Putin. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has dismissed the archpriest responsible from his expert post.
Leonid Kalinin will also be excluded from the priesthood, according to a message on the church's website. Almost a century ago, in 1929, the icon was brought to Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery – it is arguably the most revered icon of Russia.