the postcard industry. Various books of poems were published with the illustrations of landscapes. Ordinary Russian people at that time could not afford to go to Moscow or Saint Petersburg, so popularization of Russian art made them familiar with a number of Russian art masterpieces. Even now publishers use the reproductions in textbooks as a visual icon of national identity. Decline of creativity As the authority and public influence of the society steadily grew, government officials had to stop their efforts to repress the members. Attempts were made to subordinate their activity, and raise the falling value of Academy of Arts-sanctioned works. By the 1890s, the Academy of Arts structure was including Peredvizhniki art in its classes and history, and the influence of the artists showed in national art schools. Gallery Members Peredvizhniki artists included: Abram Arkhipov Ivan Bogdanov Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky Pavel Brullov Nikolai Ge Kārlis Hūns Nikolay Kasatkin Alexander Kiselyov Ivan Kramskoi Arkhip Kuindzhi Nikolai Kuznetsov Isaac Levitan Rafail Levitsky Alexander Litovchenko Vladimir Makovsky Vassily Maximov Grigoriy Myasoyedov Leonid Pasternak Vasily Perov Konstantin Pervukhin Vasily Polenov Illarion Pryanishnikov Ilya Repin Andrei Ryabushkin Antonina Rzhevskaya Konstantin Savitsky Alexei Savrasov Valentin Serov Emily Shanks Ivan Shishkin Alexei Stepanov Vasily Surikov Vitaly Tikhov Apollinary Vasnetsov Viktor Vasnetsov Yefim Volkov Nikolai Yaroshenko Nikolai Zagorsky References Further reading Society of Wandering Art Exhibits. Letters and Documents. 1869–1899. Vol. 1, 2., Publisher ‘Iskusstvo’, Moscow, 1987. Text in Russian Evgeny Steiner. “The Battle for ‘The People’s Cause’ or for the Market Case?” // Cahiers du Monde Russe, 50:4, 2009; pp. 627–646. Evgeny Steiner. “Pursuing Independence: Kramskoi and the Itinerants Vs. the Academy of Arts” // Russian Review, #70, 2011, pp. 252–271. External links "A battle for the 'people's cause' or for the market case" – Cairn.info Peredvizhniki (Wanderers), by Kristen M. Harkness, Smarthistory "The Seeds of Russia's Cultural Revolution: The Peredvizhniki (Wanderers) and The Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions" Society of Traveling Exhibitions Web Site 1923 disestablishments Organizations established in 1863 Russian art movements Russian artist groups and collectives Social realism