The icon could have been lost on the road that connected the Kremlin and China Town with the Zlatoust Monastery.

      Archaeologists discovered a fold of a small reliquary icon created in the 15th-16th centuries. It was unearthed in the course of improvement works in the Luchnikov Lane in the center of Moscow.

      “In Luchnikov Lane, archaeologists have found a unique artifact, the fold of a reliquary icon cast from copper alloy in the 15th-16th centuries. It was possibly lost on the road that connected the Kremlin and Kitay Gorod with the Zlatoust Monastery”, - the archeological report says.