According to folklore researcher, Hele Bome,[3] Saint Nikolai of Mozhaisk is remembered in an icon sculpted in high-relief.
Some texts specifically describe the saint as a warrior-hero (e.g., a white-bearded man who stands on top of the monastery wall and can't be touched by enemy fire).
The icon stands with a sword raised, which figures in the initial legends as Nikolai appeared to during a war time, but which is explained in other stories as the Saint threatening to strike an old woman who did not believe in him.
These legends may include events actually experienced in the life of the missionary Abbot Cornelius [Wikidata] of Petseri (near the Estonia-Russia border).
The icon of Saint Nicholas of Mozhaisk was installed on the wall of Nikolskaya Tower above the Nikolsky Gate to Moscow Kremlin.