Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1899, ya zama memba na Peredvizhniki, amma ba da daɗewa ba ya gamsu da girmamawarsu kan "kyawawan al'amuran". A cikin 1903, yana ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda suka kafa "" (Union of Russian Artists), wanda ya maye gurbin sanannen "Mir Iskusstva". A shekara ta 1905, Cibiyar Nazarin Harkokin Kasuwanci ta kira shi "Academician". Daga baya a wannan shekarar, a lokacin tashin hankalin Moscow
, ya yi zane-zane da yawa yayin kuma taimaka wa wadanda suka ji rauni.