The exhibition in the last room of the House-Museum is devoted to the late period of Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak’s work — St. Petersburg period. On the wall, there is a caricature portrait of the writer. It was drawn by artist Valery Carrick.

The work entered the museum’s collection in June 1947 from the archives of the Pushkin House of the Academy of Sciences (IRLI) in St. Petersburg.

The graphic caricaturist Valery Carrick was born in 1869. He became famous for his series of friendly caricatures of famous writers, politicians and public figures of the time. Carrick drew the writers Leonid Andreyev and Maxim Gorky, the critic Alexander Skabichevsky, and the playwright Yevgeny Chirikov. Some of these watercolor caricatures are kept in the Maxim Gorky Museum in Moscow.

Valery Carrick collaborated with the magazine “Russian Wealth” [“Russkoye Bogatstvo”] and attended “Thursdays” in the editorial office — weekly meetings for the staff. The guests usually sat around a long table, drank tea with sandwiches and discussed political and literary news.

Mamin-Sibiryak also worked with the magazine and participated in “Thursdays”.

On “Thursdays” Carrick drew caricatures of those present. The artist made a caricature of Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak in his traditional manner: he portrayed the writer in profile and framed his portrait in a rectangular frame.

Carrick managed to convey the appearance of Mamin-Sibiryak: at the time he was already of an age, but remained energetic and active. The artist left his signature in the upper right corner — his initial letters in Latin.

Next to the caricature, there is a photocopy of Ilya Repin’s self-portrait from 1902. The artist, like Carrick and Mamin-Sibiryak, was a frequent guest at literary meetings of the mid — late 19th century.