The exhibition included: Nikolai Ge, Ekaterina II u groba imperatritsy Elizavety (Catherine II Near the Coffin of Empress Elizabeth); Ivan Kramskoi, Portrait of Ivan Shishkin; Grigorii Miasoedov. Chtenie polozheniia 19 fevralia 1861 goda (Reading of the Emancipation Manifesto of 19 February 1861); Konstantin Savitskii, Remontnye raboty na zheleznoi doroge (Reparing the Railroad).