Specifications:
Height: 7 cm
Width: 12.5cm
Length: 19.5cm


Base Material: Papier-mache, Mother of Pearl
Lining: Red paint


About Lacquer Box:
(The Snow Maiden) Snegurochka, the daughter of Frost and Spring, is deaf to her parents' warning, and resolves to leave her woodland solitude and to seek the companionship of mortals. Her numb heart is warmed by the songs of Lel, the shepherd, but her inclination for him meets with no response, for Lel is in love with Kupava. She is the affianced of Mizguir, a Tatar, and in his breast Snegurochka kindles so fierce a flame of passion that he deserts his betrothed. Snegurochka, bewildered by the vagaries of Cupid, returns to her mother, who, in maternal solicitude, bestows upon her ill-fated child the power of human love. But no sooner does the Snow-Maiden utter, at the dictates of her newly awakened sensibility, an avowal of love for Mizguir, than a ray of the warm spring sun falls upon her and she floats to Heaven in a vapour.

Snegurochka:
Aleksandr Ostrovsky's play was first performed in Russia in 1874, with incidental music by the great Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.