The painting is named after the beautiful red salmon which gave impulse to the  complex associations in the imagination of the artist. The fiery red salmon with the green head and the hump floats in the clear waters of a pond near the feet of the beautiful young woman in the white wedding dress. The beauty is weaving a scarlet ribbon into her long blond hair, as a symbol of power and sacrifice, which every woman makes giving birth to a child like a red salmon which sacrifices everything for her brood.

Larisa Kral, a Croatian artist born in St. Petersburg, invited a group of ten St. Petersburg artists to take part in the plenair in Croatia. It is Supetar, the city situated on the island of Brač, where the “Window to Croatia” was created . The main figure of the canvas is Julia Bobrova who is the artist’s friend and muse. She stands at the background of the terracotta wall with the window with the shutters of an unusual dark blue color. The elegant figure of the woman looks very delicate and fragile because of her crossed arms, the thin silk blouse trembling in the wind, and the watchful look of her beautiful eyes.

The Exhibition “Window to Croatia – the exhibition in the wake of the plenair” was held in the Exhibition Center of Artists Union in St. Petersburg (Oct. 24th, 2017- Nov. 1st, 2017).  The picture was noted by numerous compliments and took its rightful place on show.