Show all images on one page	#007871 Title: Vasilisa the Beautiful/Baba Yaga Artist: Komogorova Svetlana Size: 20.5x16x3.5 Size (inches): 8x6.25x1.25 Price : $850 SOLD!

This oval box has an interesting composition that painted by a talented artist Svetlana Komogorova. It shows Vasilisa the Beautiful near Baba Yaga's Hut.
Baba-Yaga is the oldest character of the Slavonic mythology. Originally Baba-Yaga was the goddess of death; people imagined her as a woman with the snake tail 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 Appels", and many, many others.
This box shows an episode from the fairy-tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful".One merchant has only one daughter, and when her was duing 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 inviteed her in his marvelous palace.
On this composition we can see Vasilisa, Baba Yaga and her Hut. On the backstage we can see two of the three riders. The girl holds in her hands the doll that helps her to fulfill very difficult tasks given by Baba-Yaga.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. A hinge is fastened to the top of the scene, and the box rests on a flat bottom.The box is signed with the artist's name and title.