January. Mir iskusstva opens its first exhibition Pervaia mezhdunarodnaia vystavka kartin (First International Exhibition of Paintings) at the Stieglitz School of Industrial Art, St Petersburg.It included works by Bakst, Benua, F. Botkin, A. Vasnetsov, Golovin, Korovin, Levitan, Maliutin, Maliavin, Nesterov, Perepletchikov, V. Polenov, E. Polenova, Repin, Rushchits, Serov, Somov, Trubetskoi, Tsionglinskii, Shcherbatov and Iakunchikova. Foreign art represented by Böcklin, Gallen-Kallela, Degas, Carrière, Lenbach, Puvis de Chavannes, Whistler, Edelfelt and others.