After the origination of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, a question about the foundation of a house for vacation and creativity was stated.
The ex-estate of the prince Nikolay Shakhovskoy in Staraya Ladoga was given up to Leningrad artists as a base zone for the rest and creative work.
Staraya Ladoga has always been drawing attention of Russian painters by the ancient barrows, architectural monuments and romantic views of the Volkhov River.
[4] A future member of the Imperial Academy of Arts and the Peredvizhniki group Vassily Maximov was born and laid to rest there.
[7] That experience gave a great deal to this artist: it helped him to understand the effect of joining a monumental painting with the architectural forms.
Many years this place was a plentiful source of inspiration for such artist as Sergei Osipov, Gleb Savinov, Nikolai Timkov, Arseny Semionov and also for many others.
[11] As an important center of the art life of Russia for 30 years a House of Creativity "Staraya Ladoga" began to work permanently in the beginning of 1960s after the finish of the restoration.
[12] Such artists as Evsey Moiseenko, Alexander Samokhvalov, Vecheslav Zagonek, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Boris Ugarov, Boris Shamanov, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Piotr Buchkin, Zlata Bizova, Taisia Afonina, Marina Kozlovskaya, Dmitry Maevsky, Alexander Semionov, Arseny Semionov, Vladimir Sakson, Gleb Savinov, Elena Zhukova, Sergei Zakharov, Ivan Varichev, Veniamin Borisov, Valery Vatenin, Ivan Godlevsky, Vladimir Krantz, Lazar Yazgur, Irina Dobrekova, Pyotr Fomin [ru] and many other Leningrad and other regions painters and graphic artists worked there.
[25] Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and liquidation of the Art Foundation at the beginning of the 1990s, the House of Creativity lost its financial support and was closed.