Show all images on one page	#009288 Title: Baba Yaga Artist: Borisov Andrey Size: 15.5x19.5x4.5 Size (inches): 6x7.75x1.75 Price : $850 SOLD!

Andrey Borisov is the talented Fedoskino artist who has painted this image of Baba Yaga from the Russian fairy-tales. Baba-Yaga is the artist's favorite heroine and he likes to depict her in his unique compositions.
Baba-Yaga is the oldest character of the Slavonic mythology. Originally Baba-Yaga was the goddess of death who guarded the entrance into the other world and accompanied the souls of dead people into the Kingdom of the Dead. Baba-Yaga is the most famous figure in Russian fairy-tales that represents evil. It is a character of such fairy-tales as "Marya Morevna", "Princess Frog", "The Tale of Life Water and Youth Giving Apples", and many, many others.
In this composition Baba-Yaga sit near her hut on the checken legs on a baba-yaga's mortar with a brocken broom in her hand. In front of her we can see a couple of poisonous mushrooms. Her servant raven is sit on a branch of a tree in the left part of the composition.
A large piece of green mother-of-pearl is shines through the bush of flowers in the right corner of the box, another piece of white mother-of-pearl is shining through the walls of Baba Yaga's Hut.
The composition is painted in the muffled color of oil paints.
The scene is franed with a gold line.The sides of a box are decorated with two parallel gold lines.
The box's exterior is black, while the box's interior is red.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. A hinge is fastened to the left of the composition , and the box rests on the four legs.
The work is signed with the year of 2008, Fedoskino, title- Baba Yaga and author Borisov, which confirms, that the composition is original painting of this artist!