Of various shapes and sizes; featuring scenes from fairy tales: Ruslan and Lyudmila, Firebird, Little Humpbacked Horse, Golden Cockerel, Tsar Saltan and others; boxes are signed and dated 1936 (oldest) through 1992 (newest); all in traditional Palekh style of painting with an ornate gilded border running around the covers and the bodies of the boxes; crimson interiors; largest: 27.3 cm (10 3/4 in.) long by 4.4 cm (1 3/4 in.) high, smallest: 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.) in diameter