Word: natasha
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...justice. At Pskoff the police heard tales. Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles. One teardrop, applied to a wound, healed it. By virtue of the tears, Lydia Belskaya was cured of scrofula, Nadya Kolkova of a chronic abscess, Natasha Arcipova of paralysis. Thousands of tears had been efficaciously shed. The police-themselves but humble Bolsheviks-trembled to lay hands upon the holy man who conducted so holy a shrine. But they feared Moscow more. They arrested Troitski, and Troitski confessed...