Ivan Marvichka was invited by the East Rumeliya government to teach painting in Plovdiv. This short-lived adventure of the then 25-year-old boy eventually continued for forty years, bringing Bulgaria countless positives and donating it to her invaluable son.

The name Ivan, with whom the artist is known to all generations after him, is actually a bulgarian version of Czech Jan. Jan Vaclav Markvichka was called Ivan when he arrived in Bulgaria in 1882, and after his return to the Czech Republic he adopted his Bulgarian name and even started signing with him. We can only guess what awakens the unbridled love of chechs to our homeland.

The most famous painting of the Czech "Rachenitsa" was created in Sofia, where Mаrкvichka was established in 1989. The first version of the canvas was painted in 1894, and the second one in 1906. In Bulgaria, Markvichka encounters an unexpected problem. Local superstitions create obstacles for the artist to find patterns, and people are often refused to pose. Is that why, or just in the middle of the circumstances, in the Bistritish tavern depicted on the canvas, plays another great friend of Bulgaria and Markvichka - the Irish journalist James Baucher. According to other versions, the picture depicts a peasant peasant from the village of Verdikal near Bankya.

The reproduction is a high-quality print, on an Italian eco ink canvas. The canvas is folded over the back to the size of 30x40, and above this size is stretched on a subframe. The picture is arranged with a luxury frame.