The picture was created and printed in the first village lithographic studio in Russia. In 1858, it was founded by the talented peasant Ivan Golyshev (1836–1896) in the village of Mstyora, Vladimir Province. A self-taught lithographic artist, he was descended from an old line of Mstyora icon painters. The studio at the Golyshevka estate existed until the mid-1880s, while its production of luboks could keep up with that of Moscow chromolithographic shops. The studio would produce 3,000 pictures a day. St George was one of the favoured subjects for folk images. Printed on cheap paper produced not far from Mstyora, the pictures were coloured by hand by local women. Along with famous Mstyora icons of the 19th-early 20th centuries, Golyshev folk pictures are an example of classical folk crafts.