Vitaly Tikhov

That same year, he began auditing courses at the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied with Aleksandr's father, Vladimir Makovsky, and Ilya Repin.

As a result, he was awarded the title of "Artist" and given a pension with permission to travel abroad.

That same year, he and his friend Nikolai Fechin signed a petition urging Repin not to retire from the Academy.

[2] During the 1930s, he departed from his familiar themes to paint works of Socialist Realism, depicting industrial workers, soldiers and sailors.

He participated in the "Workers and Peasants Red Army" exhibitions of 1933 and 1938 at the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute.