Igor Razdrogin depicted such a Moscow market. The artist chose for this work a complex color scheme, which combines different shades of red, blue, green, brown, gray. Color contrasts and the free manner of overlaying of colors make the crowd dynamic and expressive. 

The artist smoothed dark tones with light nuances: there are few shadows in the painting, and the image seems to be filled with soft yellowish light.

The book counter - the brightest spot on the painting - is the center of the composition. It is extended in the perspective and does not end within the painting, but in a sense it goes beyond the edge of the paining as a long and endless row. Public transport - a tram or a trolley bus - can be seen in the background. This detail indicates that the book counter is deployed right on the street, near the stop, where there are always a lot of people.

Igor Razdrogin studied painting in the studio of Boris Johanson, one of the main masters of social realism. After his studies, the artist traveled a lot in the USSR.

During his travels, he painted portraits, landscapes and genre works, in which he depicted scenes from everyday life. Characters of his paintings were people of working professions, casual passers-by, representatives of small northern peoples - Chukchis and Evenks.

In 1958 Igor Razdrogin created the painting Rural Teacher. Two years later, in 1960, for this painting he received the Lenin Prize - one of the highest Soviet awards in the field of art. Now the painting is on display in the Tretyakov Gallery. Other works of the artist are kept in museums and private collections in Russia, USA, Finland, Korea and other countries of the world.