Here we have a beautiful landscape work by the very popular artist Mitusov of Fedoskino. This work is titled "City of Old Novrograd". Novograd a old russian city north of Moscow about 500 miles to the North at one time the city was the center of Russia in old prehistoric times in Russian history. Here you can see the beautiful lanscape of many Russian Orthodox chuirches which some dating back to the 1200's with the russian churches. The bridge over the waterway you can see some mother of pearl effect. On the bottom of the box and the sides you can see that it has a marble look, but is made out of paer mache absolutely wonderful way of incorparating a wonderful painting on the top but the sides of the box are just spectacular. The box is handpainted and signed by the artist Mitusov. The size of the box is 5 x 4.25 x 1 inches ( 13.5 x 11 x 2.5 cm).