Show all images on one page	#008701 Title: Baba Yaga Artist: Shavirin Boris Size: 11x15x3.5 Size (inches): 4.25x6x1.25 Price : $950 SOLD!

Boris Shavirin is the talented Fedoskino Master who has painted this Baba Yaga, the heroine of several Russian fairy-tales.
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 Apples", and many, many others.
In this composition Baba-Yaga is sit in her Hut, which stand on the checken legs. She has a red poisonous mushroom-fly agaric in her hand and with a pan in the other. Her servant Black Cat is sit at the window.On the left we can partly see a mortar with a broom, which she is sometimes use to fly. Baba Yaga's costume is head-line with gold color.
The composition is painted in bright colors. The composition is framed with a wide gold band.
The sides of a box are imitates the color of a brown marble. 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 flat. The work is signed with the year of 2018, Fedoskino, and the artist's name.