This piece was exhibited in Moscow exhibition devoted to 75th anniversary of Palekh Lacquer Miniature Art in 1999 and then published in a well known L.Pirogova "Palekh Lacquer Miniature" book by Interbook-Business, 2001 - catalogue # 94, page 86.

N.Lopatin is ranked by all experts in Russian Miniature Art as a classic-painter of modern Palekh first of all due to his strong traditional technique skills and completeness of his images. In that piece he played with colors, as he used a lot of yellow, light blue and gray colors from a cold palette, instead of warm-red spectrum (which he likes) , to stress the aspects of the fairy-tale. The work is highly detailed and for sure could be an example of real Palekh small miracle.

Requested and bought by an American collector.