Baba Yaga

Boris Shavirin is the talented Fedoskino Master who has painted 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 sit on a porch of her house, which stand on the checken legs. On front of the composition we can see red poisonous mushrooms-fly agarics. Her servant owl is flying over the Hut and Baba Yaga is flattering other her servant- Cat.
The composition is painted in the muffled yellow, brown and gray colors. Two pieces of mother-of-pearl are shimmered through the painting- th one in through the open door and the other one-shows the moon over the left upper part of the roof of the Hut.
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 2016, Fedoskino, and the autor B.Shavirin.