Show all images on one page	#001675 Title: Pushkin's Fairy Tales Artist: Yevdokimova Yelena Size: 16.5x11x12 Size (inches): 6.25x4.25x4.75 Price : $1150 SOLD!

Talented artist Elena Yevdokimova of Mstera created this brilliant piece of genuine Russian artistry. A delightful palette of fairy-tale elegance and an exceptional display of ornamentation combine on this thrilling box. Here she depicts multiple moments from different fairy-tales written by A.S. Pushkin.
On the lid the artist depicts the famous Pushkin's story-teller's introduction:

An oak tree greening by the ocean;
A golden chain about it wound:
Whereon a learned cat, in motion
Both day and night, will walk around;
On walking right he sings a song,
On walking left, he tells a lay.
A magic place: there wends his way
The woodsprite, there's a mermaid sitting
In branches, there on trails past knowing
Are tracks of beast you never met;
On chicken feet a hut is set
With neither door nor window showing.
There wood and dale with wonders teem;
At dawn of day the breakers stream
Upon the bare and barren lea,
And thirty handsome armored heroes
File from the waters' shining mirrors,
With them their Usher from the Sea.
There glimpse a prince, and in his slave;
Alot, before the people massing,
Across the wood, across the wave,
A warlock bears a warrior brave;
See Baba-Yaga's mortar glide
All of itself, with her astride.
There droops Kashey, on treasure bent;
There's Russia's spirit... Russian scent!
The scene is framed with a gold line. All four sides of the lid are decorated with flowered patterns of golden and aluminum filigree where small round miniatures are inserted. These miniatures show different scenes: Princess Swan swimming in the ocean; Prince Gvidon and Princess Swan; Tsar Saltan and his wife; the gold fish; the fisherman; the fisherman's greedy wife; thirty handsome armored heroes; Prince Yelisey with his bride; Tsar Dadon; the golden cockerel; and the Shemakha Queen. On the lid's border the artist wrote in gold several lines on the story-teller's introduction written above.
The box's four sides show the scenes framed with a gold line showing fragments from the following fairy-tales: "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", "The Golden Cockerel", "The Fisherman and the Golden Fish", and "The Sleeping Princess". On the border of the box's sides the artist wrote in gold the lines from each tale: "