The blasphemous dissection of St. Sergius' relics in 1919 was a main component in the wide anti-church campaign carried out by the authorities, before the monastery was closed a year later. The relics were transported to a museum and a rough, fake copy was manufactured.

At the entrance of the monastery stands a soldier with his right arm raised and holding a sword threatening the ousted group of monks. Heading towards the opposite direction as the holy man, a group of soldiers carry the stolen relics. The upper and lower lines delimiting the walls of the monastery emphasize the opposing motion of the two groups. Meanwhile, the belfry behind the wall stands in the central axis but without bells, depicting the material and symbolic destruction of the monastery.

To the sides of the belfry sit the Uspensky and Troitsky cathedrals. And here like in other scenes on the icon the persecutors are represented as silhouettes dressed in murky green color. This is the brightest of the left side scenes and it sits on the horizontal axis of the entire icon and therefore carrying a greater semantic load.

The name of St. Sergius is closely associated with periods of time when the Russian people had to endure many tests and go through great suffering: the yolk of the Tatar rule, the Dark Ages and finally, the Revolution. Holy Patriarch Tikhon protested many times against the violence that afflicted this monastery and its holy relics, and therefore he's depicted in the lower, adjacent scene.