Vladimir Stasov
He also did sketches for portraits of Maxim Gorky and Vladimir Stasov and two portraits of Natalia Nordman. In 1907 he resigned from the Academy of Arts, visited Chuguyev and the Crimea, and wrote reminiscences of Vladimir Stasov. In 1908 he publicly denounced capital punishment in Russia. He illustrated Leonid Andreyev's story "The Seven Who Were Hanged", and his painting "The Cossacks from the Black Sea Coast" was exhibited at the Itinerants' Society Exhibition. In 1909 he painted "Gogol Burning the Manuscript of the Second Part of Dead Souls", and in 1910, portraits of Pyotr Stolypin, and the children's writer and poet Korney Chukovsky.