2-708-818 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Child Bartholomew's Dream', 1889-1890, (1965). Scene depicting an episode from the life of the Venerable St Sergius of Radonezh (c1321-1391), baptised Bartholomew (or Varfolomei). Here a monk helps him learn to read after they share a piece of holy bread. Painting, also known as 'The Vision of the Young Bartholomew', in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. From "Russian Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries" by Vladimir Fiala. [Artia, Czechoslovakia, 1965]