The Rusanov House Museum presents a portrait of Dmitry Shparo by the famous traveler Fyodor Konyukhov.

Fyodor Filippovich Konyukhov is a Soviet and Russian traveler, writer, and artist, who completed five circumnavigations of the world on his own. He crossed the Atlantic 17 times, once in a rowboat. Fyodor Konyukhov is the first Russian to visit all seven of the highest peaks on Earth.

Dmitry Igorevich Shparo is a famous Soviet and Russian traveler and writer, leader of the expedition that was the first in the world to reach the North Pole on skis (1979). Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1979), he was born into the family of the writer Igor Shparo. After finishing school with a gold medal, he graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University and took his PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1968). For many years he worked as a teacher at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. He was an associate professor and was considered one of the strictest teachers at the institute. After the expedition in 1979, Shparo had a new agreement with the management of the institute: he spent a third of his working time at the department, and devoted the rest of the time to traveling to various inaccessible corners of the globe. He stopped his scientific and teaching activities after the creation of the Adventure club in 1989. From 1970 to 1989, he led the polar expedition of Komsomolskaya Pravda — he used it to create the Adventure club. Shparo found the grave of Vitus Jonassen Bering. In 1979, he led the first ever ski expedition to the North Pole. In 1988, a Soviet-Canadian expedition led by Shparo crossed the Arctic Ocean on skis along the route the USSR — North Pole — Canada. As a result, Dmitry Shparo was awarded the third most important Soviet Order of the Red Banner of Labor, as well as the prestigious UNESCO award “Fair Play”. Despite the difficulties, the novice traveler Fyodor Konyukhov also took part in the expedition.

The exhibition at the Rusanov House Museum presents another work by Fyodor Konyukhov — the autolithography “Contemplation”.