The icon of the Saints Peter and Paul was a gift to the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome by the Serbian Queen Jelena Anžujska (ca. 1230-1314, a nun at that time) and her sons Milutin and Dragutin probably after 1282. In the lower register of the icon, Jelena is represented with the Pope, while her sons Dragutin and Milutin are painted on the sides. It is known that Queen Jelena corresponded with Pope Nicholas IV (1288-1292), who was the head of the Roman Church at the beginning of the last decade of the 13th century. It is believed that it was during his pontificate that the icon was created and then sent to him as a present. A few decades after the arrival of the icon in Rome, there was a belief that it was actually an icon that Pope Sylvester I (314-335) had given to the Byzantine Emperor Constantine the Great (reigned 324-337) at the beginning of the 4th century. Conditioned by this belief, a second layer of painting was placed over it in the 16th century (in 1535) by Leonardo of Pistoia. Then the figure of Queen Jelena was replaced by the figure of Emperor Constantine, and the figures of the Serbian Kings Milutin and Dragutin were transformed into "Greek nobles". On this occasion, an icon frame was added. In 1941 Pimen Sofronov (1898/99-1973) restored the icon, when the younger layer from the 16th century was removed and the icon regained its appearance from the end of the 13th century. The icon is still kept today in the treasury of the the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome.