The exhibition included: Ivan Kramskoi, portraits of A. Litovchenko, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and E. Lavrovskaia; Arkhip Kuindzhi, Berezovaia roshcha (Birch Grove); Vladimir Makovskii, Osuzhdennyi (Sentenced); Vasilii Polenov, Babushkin sad (Grandmother's Garden); Il'ia Repin, Tsarevna Sofia (Princess Sophia).