He spent most of the decade on the road, and his works of this period were strongly influenced by his travels to the Russian North, and along the Volga River.
[2] In 1901 Klodt, now under the strong influence of impressionism, started to work as stage designer, for the leading theatres of St Petersburg and Moscow.
With Korovin he created the stage design for the ballet The Little Humpbacked Horse by Cesare Pugni at the Bolshoi Theatre, in 1901.
In 1903, working with set designs by Alexandre Benois, he decorated the scene of Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung for Mariinsky Theatre.
[2] Among the colleagues who valued his legacy exceptionally high was Igor Grabar, who considered him to be Russia's "greatly underrated master of art" who "during his endless travels developed extraordinary technical prowess as well as the unique style which made its marks in the history of Russian fine art.