This painting shows the horizon of the Russian Caucasus in an incomparably suggestive way, with a historicist vein. The formal definition of the knight in the foreground on the right allows the figurative scene to be spatially and historically placed: thick amaranth caftan, wide oriental trousers improperly called Arabian, high leather boots and white turban presumably wrapped around a crimson cahouk, as well as the inevitable sword, clearly demonstrate that he is a Circassian Mamluk, or a soldier of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, from that area now called Adygea (Cherkessia in Russian). There are also the watchtower-houses typical of the Caucasian plains, today perfectly testified by the examples of the 'Upper Svaneti (Caucasian area of ​​Georgia, Unesco world heritage).

in the paintings of Giuseppe Chiacigh are recurring popular and historical Caucasian themes (battles between Tartars and Cossacks, exploits of Ivan the Terrible, knights in warlike attitudes).