Ten icons of the Passion series painted on canvases were decorating the balcony of the choir loft in the Church of the Resurrection in the Grand Kremlin Palace the interior of which was created in the late 1670s-early 1680s. During the restoration works in the late 1830s – early 1840s due to the erection of the Grand Kremlin Palace (designed by K.A. Thon), the supervising officials from the Moscow Palace Office thought the old painted icons were ramshackle and of low artistic quality. For this reason, on 7 August 1842, the old icons were replaced by the new ones on boards made by the Palekh artist Ya. A. Malakhov. They remained in the church until now.
The iconography of the icons originates from the West-European engravings popular in the Russian art of the late 17th – early 18th centuries. Though most common postures, aspect views of the depicted figures as well as some details of clothing and items of interior were rendered from these engravings, the composition was reproduced in a simplified and reduced manner.