Show all images on one page	#002109 Title: Sleeping Princess Artist: Kurkina Nataliya Size: 16x12x2.5 Size (inches): 6.25x4.75x1 Price : $950 SOLD!

This beautiful box was painted by Natalya Kurkina from Palekh. It features a scene from the popular story of, "The Sleeping Princess." This story was originally put to pen by French writer Charles Perrault when he published his collection of fairy tales "Stories of Olden Times" in 1697. The French title of the tale was "La belle au bois dormant," which means "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood."
It's the very beginning of the fairy-tale. The little long-awaited Princess was born in the kingdom. Her parents organized a sumptuous feast and invited seven Fairies. In that times Fairies had a marvelous custom to endow their goddaughters with merits and virtues