The peak of his creative activity was during the 1920-1930, and his works were included in Collections of the most important museums in Russia and beyond it. Due to the title of his famous painting Volkov is known as a “Master of the Pomegranate Tea-house”.

The Savitsky Museum has more than 100 pieces of the artist and it is the largest collection of his works which can be ever seen in the permanent display of the museum.

The exhibition will show Volkov’s works that have been restored by the specialists such as those from Moskow, from the international team “Restaurateurs Sans Frontieres”. As well as the Savitsky museum restorers. They saved 18 paintings by Volkov.

So, the visitors will see about 80 paintings and graphic works, which have not been exhibited before.

The exhibition will reveal various stages of Volkovs activity: his early cubo- futuristic period and that when Volkov was creating his inimitable monumental style based on primitivism, and his late period when he was trying to find compromise between demands of the Socialist system and aspirations of the inspired and and ever seeking artists.

Alexander Volkov was not only an outstanding painter, but he also was a Poet, and his Poetic gift had been reflected in his verses as well as in the rhythmic composition of his splendid paintings. He was known as a Painter who could depict on canvas even the cart’s squeak, and the measured jingle of the camel bells in caravan, the artist who was proclaiming his credo “not to be a slave of any artistic brends”.

His contemporaries remember that in the early 1920-s, in the heat of the debates about art Volkov’s opponents put his works away from the exhibition in the night, but his friends hung them back again in the morning.

The colours of his canvases were so bright that some visitors tried to find behind his paintings a hidden source of light, providing such brilliance.

The opening ceremony of the exhibition will be attended by the artist’s descendants, the members of the “Friends of the Nukus Museum” club and the exhibition sponsor, NESTLE.