Show all images on one page	#009285 Title: Vasilisa the Beautiful Artist: Chistov Sergey Size: 16x12.5x5 Size (inches): 6.25x5x2 Price : $450 SOLD!

Well-known and established Fedoskino artist Sergey Chistov has painted this composition.
The box shows an episode from the fairy-tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful".
One merchant has only one daughter, and when her mother was dying she asked dauther to come to her and give her a doll. She said when you will be in trouble, just feed the doll and it'll help. Suddenly she died and later on merchant has married another woman with two daughter. The girl's cruel stepmother sending her to the forest to ask Baba-Yaga to give her work. It is the stepmother's pretext, in fact she wants Baba-Yaga to kill the girl. In the forest Vasilisa meets Baba-Yaga and three riders: the Red Sun Rider, the Dark Night Rider, and the Bright Day Rider. But, finally, this tale has a happy end. The handsome Prince offers the girl his hand and heart and invited her in his marvelous palace. On this composition we can see Vasilisa,the three Riders and Baba Yaga's in front of her Hut. The girl holds the doll that helps her to fulfill very difficult tasks given by Baba-Yaga.
On this composition we can see Vasilisa near Baba Yaga's Hut on Chicken legs, Baba Yaga in mortal with a broom in her hands and the three riders.
Black lacquer cover the box's exterior and red lacquer covered the interior.
The painting is framed with a gold line. Two parallel gold lines wrap around the box's sides.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. The lid is hinged to the top of the scene, and the box rests on four legs. The work is signed with the artist's name, date 2012, title- Vasilisa the Beautiful and the village of Fedoskino.