Tempera on canvas. 2000. 80 х 80 cm

The Altay legend about Belovodye (they call so Shambhala) is connected with caves as they say it is possible to reach the sacred land through underground passages starting from the caves. The old men are narrating about great saints living in Belovodye, allegedly they sometime come out to this world.
Once the woman went out the cave; she was not alike local people, her face and cloth was so unusual that they understood she came from Belovodye. Why she came? Maybe to bring the piece of Magic Stone?