Show all images on one page	#001556 Title: Moscow Kremlin Artist: Smirnov Mikhail Size: 25x10x4,5 Size (inches): 9 3/4x4x1 1/2 Price : $395 SOLD!

Mikhail Smirnov of Kholuy is the artist who painted this panorama of the Kremlin in Moscow. The city was officially founded in 1147 as a trading post for merchants traveling through the area. Today the city has grown immensely and holds a population of close to, or just over, 10 million people. As the capital of Russia, Moscow stands as a symbol for the world and is associated mostly with the buildings that have been painted on this box. The most famous of which is St. Basil's Cathedral that looks like no other structure in the world.
The palette the artist uses is based on three colors: crimson, white and grey with addition of green and gold paints.
The red-bricked wall surrounds the Kremlin. Here the artist has depicted all wall towers, except the Kutafya Tower (from left to right): the Troitskaya Tower (in the upper part, in the middle), the Komendantskaya Tower (lower), the Oruzheinaya Tower (lower), the Borovitskaya Tower (lower), the Vodozvodnaya Tower (in the left part), the Blagoveshchenskaya Tower, the Taititskaya Tower, the first Bezymyannaya Tower, the second Bezymyannaya Tower, the Petrovskaya Tower, the Moskvoretskaya Tower, the Konstantino-Yeleninskaya Tower, the Nabatnaya Tower, the Tsarskay Tower, the Spasskaya Tower (in the right part), the Senatskaya Tower, the Nikolskaya Tower, the Corner Arsenalnaya Tower, the Middle Arsenalnaya Tower.
Behind the wall there are the world known buildings situated (as the wall towers) in its real geographical location. From left to right beginning with the upper part: the golden cupolas of the domestic churches, the Terem Palace, the Church of the Deposition of the Robe, the Cathedral of Assumption, (lower) the Great Kremlin's Palace (with the spire on the roof), the Cathedral of Annunciation, the Archangel Cathedral, the Belfry of Ivan the Great, the Patriarch's Palace and the Church of the Twelve Apostles, the Arsenal building, and a little above the Senate building. Within the Kremlin's wall we also can see the Tsar Bell and the Tsar Cannon and beyond the boundaries of the wall there is the famous mausoleum.
The box is constructed from paper-mache made. Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior of the piece while a lively red lacquer completes the interior of the work. A hinge has been fastened to the top of the composition and the box rests on a flat bottom. The work is signed by the artist.