The work was created in Mexico during the artist's American stay (1941 - 1943). The Russian element evoked in this intense painting is poetically present in the fantastic solution of the landscape, which is the dear and familiar one of childhood in Vitebsk: old wooden dachas, narrow streets of fences, signs in shops, young lovers, pets, united in a supernatural world - according to Apollinaire's definition - anyway fantastic and surreal of idyllic stillness. The ringing sumptuousness of the blue color, with the dense white light of the moon placed in the center, on the snow, under the belly of the horse, reaches here a magical depth and resonance, acquiring a strong inner suggestiveness that communicates, in the transfiguration of the dream, restlessness and sadness, immersed as it is in the poignant and melancholy tenderness of memory.