The artist puts the image onto a black background, with only the symbolic window giving it any definition. Her kakoshnik is painted in the same manner, but with yellow paint, and is painted over with red and gold paints to give it detail. Streaming gold lines are shooting out of the falcon, which suggest its magic powers. The linear movement in the piece is very smooth giving the girl her saddened body language, and the piece its elegance. The box is constructed out of paper-mache made in the village of Fedoskino.
Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior and red lacquer to paint the interior of the piece.
Smooth gold filigree wraps around the sides of the box solidifying the pieces exceptional aestheticism. The box has a hinge to the left of the composition and rests on a flat bottom.