At the beginning of the 20th century, the latest trends put Russia, if not in the first, then in one of the leading places in the development of world art culture of those years. And after the October events of 1917, socialist realism triumphed in Russian art. Painting of the Soviet period is one of the brightest and interesting pages in the history of Russian culture, but even now the time has not yet come for its true assessment. Only our descendants are destined to see in the painting of the Soviet period it is painting outside the political conjuncture of the past. And in the history of Russian art will remain "Girl in a T-shirt," and "I.V. Stalin and K.E. Voroshilov in the Kremlin," and "Lenin in Razliv," and "Domna No. 1. Kuznetsk-stroy." As monuments of their era.