Baba Yaga

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 staying in front of her Hut on the checken legs, near by a mortar with a broom in her hand. The painting is showing the forest, the Hut,which is located behind Baba Yaga. On the front, we can see a group of mushrooms fly-agarics, a servant- dark hair cat is near by.
The composition is painted in the muffled color of tempera paints.
The sides of a box are decorated with a gold ornamentation. 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 top of the composition , and the box rests on the four small round legs. The work is signed with the year of 2017, Mstera, title- Baba Yaga and the autor Nikolay Molodkin.