The exhibition included: Nikolai Ge, Pushkin v Mikhailovskom (Pushkin at Mikhailovskoe); Nikolai Iaroshenko, Nevskii prospekt noch'iu (The Nevskii Prospect at Night); Ivan Kramskoi, Polesovshchik (Forest Warden); Vladimir Makovskii, Ozhidanie (Waiting), Poseshchenie bednykh (Visiting the Poor); Vasilii Maksimov, Prikhod kolduna na krest'ianskuiu svad'bu (The Arrival of the Sorcerer at the Peasant Wedding); eight works by Vasilii Vereshchagin.