The story of the portrait did not end there. In 1861, an art collector Ivan Losev bought the canvas directly from Andrey Borisov’s descendants. Then it would find its way to the Chistopol magistrate Andrey Ostrovsky, the brother of the famous playwright Alexander Ostrovsky. The magistrate brought the painting with him when he was assigned to Kazan. There the picture was bought by an art connoisseur Andrey Likhachov. After his death, by the end of the 19th century, the portrait became the property of the Kazan City Scientific and Industrial Museum.

In 1905, ‘Portrait of the Merchant Andrey Ivanovich Borisov’ ventured the journey once again: it was taken to the grand exhibition ‘Russian portrait’ at the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg. On the way back, thieves stole the canvas right from the carriage at Perovo station. This event excited Kazan, and the newspaper ‘The Evening Echo’ constantly updated the shocked townspeople on the progress of the search. The search went on for two months, and finally the painting was brought back home. On the stretcher there is another sticker confirming this fact — a newspaper clipping of the early 20th century (partially lost).

‘Portrait of the Merchant Andrey Ivanovich Borisov’ has been in the museum since February 1906, and it invariably arouses great interest among visitors.