Ермак Тимофеевич
In 1888, his wife died, and he returned to Krasnoyarsk with his daughters for two years. There he painted his most lighthearted picture, "The Capture of Snow Town". This was followed by a visit to his ancestral home in Siberia. There, on the Ob River, he made sketches for one of his most familiar works, "The Conquest of Siberia by Yermak Timofeyevich" (an event in which some of his ancestors had participated). This brought him a full membership in the Imperial Academy. In 1897, he visited Switzerland and painted "Suvorov Crossing the Alps", which was purchased by Tsar Nicholas II.