context: Fedotov showed them to Bryullov, omnipotent in those years at the Academy of Arts, who was delighted. The Council of the Academy, Fedotov was nominated for the title of academician and received a cash allowance, which allowed him to continue the picture "Matchmaking of the Major" (1848, 1851 - the second option). This picture was ready for the academic exhibition of 1848 of the year, at which it appeared along with the Fresh Cavalier and the Picky Bride. (Currently, all three paintings are in the Tretyakov Gallery, in Moscow).
question: At what exhibition was the painting “Matchmaking of the Major” first shown?
answers.text: academic exhibition of 1848