He leafed through the pages, stopped at the story ‘The Holy Satyr’ and… time stood still. According to the plot, a satyr appears to Fra Mino, the abbot of the Florentine monastery. Tretyakov galleryThe next morning, Vrubel scraped his wife's portrait off the canvas and began painting a new one. A day later, he invited Nadezhda and musician Boris Yanovsky to come and see the finished work. That same year, the painting, now titled ‘Pan’, was exhibited at an exhibition organized by the Moscow Artists’ Society.