Show all images on one page	#001158 Title: Ivat Tsarevich and The Grey Wolf Artist: Sarycheva T. Size: 8.5x10.5x4 Price : $195 SOLD!

This box was painted by T. Sarycheva from Fedoskino. The composition is an interpretation of a canvas-on-oil painting called "Ivan Tsarevich Riding the Grey Wolf". Painted in 1889 by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, it currently hangs in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
Son of a village clergyman, Victor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov prepared himself for the same career, but the passionate love for art brought the 19-year-old student of ecclesiastical seminary to St. Petersburg's Academy of Arts. He started as a scene painter, then worked on historical genre Battle of Slavs and Scythians (1881), After Prince Igor's Battle with the Polovtsy (1880). He borrowed the subjects from ancient history. He found another source of subjects in Russian mythology