The picture shows a dramatic moment of the robber’s soul transformation in the moment when he met Peri — a fallen angel who needs to accomplish a miracle to return to Paradise.

 
Against the background of the picture Karl Bryullov depicted a minaret — a tower of the masjid which is used by a muezzin (In Islam, the official who proclaims the call to prayer on Friday for the public worship and the call to the daily prayer five times a day) to call all religious people for a prayer. While working over the painting he drew his focus toward sketches and drawings done in Constantinople where in 1835, he spent three months in a residence of the Russian envoy. The artist created many masterpieces dedicated to both realistic and fantastic east themes. After a trip to Turkey, he created the paintings “The Fountain of Bakhchisarai”, “A Turkish Girl”, “In a Harem”, “An Interrupted Date”.

 
Bryullov often painted his pictures during one session with a movable opaque strokes covered with glazes. The critics marked the color scheme of his paintings. His contemporaries told that when Karl Bryullov became a representative of Russian painting, it began to get rid of the “shyness and blackness of colors.”