The jewellery piece aesthetically marries Russian folklore with works of the revivalist artist Victor Vasnetsov, particularly the painting, Sirin and
Alkonost The birds of Joy and Sorrow.
Sirin and Alkonost features two legendary half bird half woman creatures.
Sirin sings of the beauties of events to come while Alkonost's song is darker and makes the listener forget life itself.
When the Correspondence appeared a year later in the almanac
Alkonost, it was received as a twilight witness to the passing genius of the old intelligentsia and their "eternal questions" about God and the ultimate ends of history.
A retinue of medieval figures advances: patriarchs, saints from the cathedral frescos, boyars, and even Sirin and
Alkonost (mythical creatures from folk legend and religious texts who are half bird and half woman).