Abram Arkhipov (Абра́м Ефи́мович Архи́пов). A Tea Party, 1914 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).

Oil on canvas: 97.7 х 150 cm.

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Vladimir Myagkov (Мягков Владимир Николаевич). Weavers, 1975 (Mikhail Arefyev Collection, Moscow).

Oil on canvas: 160 х 205 cm. White, blue and red.

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Paul Gauguin. Tahitian Pastorale (‘Pastorales Tahitiennes’), 1893 (State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg).

Oil on canvas: 87.5 x 113.7 cm.

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Ivan Shishkin (Ива́н Ива́нович Ши́шкин). Midday - In the Environs of Moscow, 1869 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).

Oil on canvas: 111.2 х 80.4 cm.

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Ivan Shishkin (Ива́н Ива́нович Ши́шкин). A Rye Field, 1878 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).

Oil on canvas: 107 x 187 cm.

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Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg (Михаил Константинович Клодт). In the Fields, 1872 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).

Oil on canvas: 71 х 131 cm.

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Frans Snyders. The Bird’s Concert, ca. 1640 (State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg).

Oil on canvas: 136.5 x 240 cm.

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Alexander Samokhvalov (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Самохва́лов). Girl in a Football Jersey, 1932 (State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg).

Tempera on canvas: 102 x 64 cm. The football Mona Lisa. Later reworked into a colour lithograph “Girl in a Sports Shirt” (holding a tennis racket and tennis ball).

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Grigoriy Myasoyedov (Григорий Григорьевич Мясоедов). A Road in the Rye, 1881 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).

Oil on canvas: 65 x 145 cm.

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Alexander Samokhvalov (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Самохва́лов). Soviet Sports, 1935 (Nizhniy Tagil State Museum of Fine Arts).

Oil on canvas: 121 x 121 cm. Design for the Soviet pavilion opposing Germany at the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris.

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Chaïm Soutine. Carcass of Beef, ca. 1924 (Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery, Moscow).

Oil on canvas: 128.9 x 74.6 cm. The Amsterdam version: here.

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Ilya Repin (Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин). Barge Haulers on the Volga, ca. 1873 (State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg).

Oil on canvas: 131.5 x 281 cm(!).

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Kazimir Malevich (Казими́р Севери́нович Мале́вич). Woman Worker, 1933 (State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg).

Oil on canvas: 71.7 x 59.8 cm. In the final years of his life Malevich returned to figurative painting. The suprematist colour scheme remained. This work is sometimes interpreted as depicting a mother who has had her child taken away. 

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Isaak Brodskiy (Исаак Израилевич Бродский). Vladimir Lenin in Smolny, 1930 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).

Oil on canvas: 190 x 287 cm(!).

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Alexander Deyneka/ Deineka (Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Дейне́ка). Collective Farm Worker on a Bicycle, 1935 (State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg).

Oil on canvas: 120 x 220 cm.

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Isaac Levitan (Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́н). The Vladimirka Road, 1892 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).

Oil on canvas: 82.5 х 127 cm.

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Erik Bulatov (Эрик Владимирович Булатов). Red Horizon, 1972 (Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery, Moscow).

Oil on canvas: 140 x 180 cm.

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Alexander Deyneka/ Deineka (Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Дейне́ка). Expanse (‘The wide Expanse’), 1944 (State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg).

Oil on canvas: 204 x 300 cm(!).

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Alexander Deyneka/ Deineka (Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Дейне́ка). Sportswoman tying a Ribbon, 1951 (Institute of Russian Realist Art, Moscow).

Charcoal and sanguine on paper: 99 x 79 cm. Study for ‘The Bather’ (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).

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Vasily Perov (Васи́лий Григо́рьевич Перо́в). Portrait of Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, 1871 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).

Oil on canvas: 103.5 x 80.7 cm.

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