Viktor Vasnetsov created the painting "Bogatyrs" for 27 years — so much time has passed from the first sketches to the last stroke. The canvas depicts bogatyrs. They are standing at the exit, vigilantly peering into the distance to see if enemy bonfires are visible, if the trampling of enemy horses is not heard.

One of the most famous and brilliant paintings by Ivan Shishkin is "Morning in the pine forest". The canvas depicts a barely awakened pine forest. In the foreground we see a pine tree uprooted, which cubs climb. They frolic, evoking positive emotions. The main focus of the painting is the combination of sunlight in the background and bears on a tree in the foreground. Presumably, the idea of the painting was suggested to Shishkin by Savitsky, who later acted as a co-author and depicted the figures of the cubs (according to Shishkin's sketches). These bears, with some differences in poses and numbers (at first there were two of them), appear in preparatory drawings and sketches (for example, seven variants of Shishkin's pencil sketches are kept in the State Russian Museum).

Alexey Savrasov's famous painting "Rooks have Arrived" does not have bright colors or unusual shapes. The canvas depicts a corner of the Russian countryside. In the center is the dome of an ancient church, next to a rickety house. The main plot develops on curved trees. The black rooks have returned from warmer climes. They build nests on the branches, fly over the birches. Savrasov began his work on the painting in March 1871. The full-scale sketches for the future canvas were painted by the artist during his trip to Kostroma province, when he was in the village of Molvitino (now the village of Susanino, Kostroma region). After returning from Molvitin, Savrasov worked on the painting in Yaroslavl, and then finalized the composition in Moscow, where he returned in early May. In the summer of 1871, the canvas was purchased from Savrasov by Pavel Tretyakov.

The icon of the Holy Trinity, painted by Andrei Rublev in the first third of the XV century. The most famous of his works and one of the two surviving works, which, according to scientists, reliably belong to him. Until 1917, the icon was located in the Trinity Cathedral of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. The earliest surviving references to the "Trinity" are entries in the contribution books of the Trinity—Sergius Monastery in 1649 and 1673, according to which the icon was in the local row of the iconostasis of the Trinity Cathedral. According to the most common opinion of researchers, it was created simultaneously with this iconostasis. After the restoration carried out in 1918-1919, it was located in the Sergiev Posad Museum. In 1929, it entered the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

The painting "Ivan Tsarevich on the Gray Wolf" reveals the essence by its very name. It was based on a Russian fairy tale, where the main character is Ivan Tsarevich. The fabulousness of the plot is emphasized by the clothes of the main characters. The tsarevich's gold-embroidered caftan perfectly harmonizes with Elena's blue silk robe. The Gray Wolf is not gray at all, its coat is golden brown in colour, as if it repeats the colour of the clothes of the tsarevich whom it serves. The whole picture is filled with a kind of mysterious shimmer, a miracle, a fairy tale itself. The canvas was painted in 1889, during the period of Vasnetsov's work in the Vladimir Cathedral in Kiev. In 1888, he left work for a while to paint the painting "Ivan Tsarevich on the Gray Wolf". After completion, it was presented at a traveling art exhibition.