My husband knows quite a bit. Also there are books and websites about icongraphy. This Christian denomination has a fascinating history. Greek & Eastern (russian) Orthodox are parts of the Byzantine Church that was, at one time, a world center of Christianity.

Icons are about telling stories and helping worshippers focus their thoughts and reflections as they pray-- one does not pray TO them as much as one prays while thinking on them. Think of them, in terms of story, as filling the same functions stained glass windows fill-- originally, these provided pictorial teaching aids for a largely nonliterate populace.

We have a recently-commissioned icon in our chapel of the Russian sort. We did a brochure explaining the imagery, that I could send you along with a picture of it. Also, I have a boatload of beautiful .JPEGs from various websites, and there is a Russian Orthodox (mostly) calendar put out each year with frameable prints of icons, called ICONE I believe-- 12 icons of a large (18 x 24 inches???) size. PM me if you want me to track it down. Or PM me an email address and I can send the brochure text and a digital photo, and my .jpg's.

~Susan