In 1905 he organized a huge exhibition of Russian portrait painting at the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg, having travelled widely through Russia for a year discovering many previously unknown masterpieces of Russian portrait art.
在1905年，他在塔里德宮的聖彼得堡組織了一個巨大的展覽的俄羅斯肖像畫，它已經超越了許多先前不為人知的傑作很多地方。