Avtor issleduet problemu stanovleniya khudozhestvennykh uchebnykh zavedeniy Rossii perioda vtoroy treti XIX - nachala XX vekov (do 1917 goda) na bogatom arkhivnom materiale, ostanavlivayas na etapakh razvitiya i prichinakh, sposobstvovavshikh formirovaniyu Risovalnoy shkoly dlya volnoprikhodyashchikh pri Peterburgskom obshchestve pooshchreniya khudozhnikov (Imperatorskom obshchestve pooshchreniya khudozhestv) i Moskovskogo uchilishcha zhivopisi, vayaniya i zodchestva pri Moskovskom khudozhestvennom obshchestve. Analiz istochnikov pozvolil vyyavit obshchie cherty i otlichiya, prisushchie...