In the vast folklore stratum of non-professional icon painting in Russia, icons by simple rural craftsmen, called bogomazi or God-painters, stand out. They were engaged in the icon-painting but also “daubed” everything to please their soul - paintings of flowers, birds, the interiors of rural houses, and even decorated furniture. They loved the Savior, his Mother the Divine, and the most revered Russian Saints: St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, St. George the Victorious, Paraskeva the Friday, Elijah the Prophet, Alexander Nevsky, and all others, and therefore depicted them as they could. In many places in the distant lands of Russia, there was no other kind of icons available - either they were kept within the closed walls of the monasteries or they were too expensive for the ordinary people. Today, the provincial icons are studied not only as a distinct variety of the Orthodox iconography but also as examples of Russian folk art.