The main shrine of the Raifa desert became the miraculous Georgian icon of the Mother of God, a copy of the Krasnogorsk image.

Igumen Vsevolod Zakharov, now archimandrite, was appointed the abbot of the monastery. On August 14, 1991, the miraculous Georgian image of the Mother of God was transferred to the monastery, the first divine service was held, and the Georgian church was consecrated.

The history of the icon begins in 1622, when the Persian Shah Abbas conquered Georgia and seized many shrines for sale to Russian merchants visiting Persia. Among the stolen was the Georgian icon of the Mother of God, adorned with silver and gold. A Persian merchant offered it to Stefan Lazarev, the steward of the Yaroslavl merchant Yegor Lytkin, who was in Persia on business. Stefan gladly purchased the icon in 1625 and kept it with him. At that time, Lytkin saw the icon in a dream and received a directive to send it to the Krasnogorsk monastery on the Pinega River in the Arkhangelsk diocese, founded in 1603. Lytkin temporarily forgot about the vision, but when Stefan returned in 1629 and showed the icon, the merchant remembered the dream and went with it to the Black Mountain monastery, built in a hilly area known as Black Mountain. Later, the monastery became known as Krasnogorsk. By the mid-17th century, the Georgian icon in this monastery was already venerated as miraculous. In 1650, the future patriarch Nikon, then the metropolitan of Novgorod, investigated the tales of miracles and established the celebration of the icon on August 22 and September 4 according to the new style. Metropolitan Lavrenty of Kazan, formerly the igumen of the Vazhsky monastery located near the Krasnogorsk monastery, sent the best icon painter to create an exact copy of the Georgian icon of the Mother of God. This copy was delivered to the Raifa monastery in a solemn procession led by Metropolitan Lavrenty. Soon, the Raifa copy of the icon became renowned for miracles. An annual procession with this image to Sviyazhsk was established on July 31, where the icon spent 20 days in each parish church and monastery.