In 1914, the Simbirsk Scientific Archive Committee, which planned to arrange a museum dedicated to the writer in his native town, received seven paintings from Goncharov’s collection. They were donated by Alexandra Treygut — Goncharov’s housekeeper and the widow of his manservant.

 
Only three of them survived to this day. Since the 1950s, they have been exhibited in the I. A. Goncharov Memorial Room at the Ulyanovsk Museum of Local History, which became part of the permanent collection of the Ivan Goncharov Historical and Memorial Center Museum in 1982. One of the landscapes shows a small port town with some houses and mountains in the background. An unknown artist depicted a traditional Asian wooden boat in the foreground — such small boats were usually used for fishing, transporting goods, or floating market trade. Sometimes, the boats served as a place to live for their owners: in this case, a canopy made of reeds was placed over the deck as protection from bad weather and sun exposure.