Tatiana Mavrina ( 1900-1996) is famous as a book-illustrator; she illustrated mainly russian folk fairytales. In the years of the Great Patriotic War she draw posters and calenders. Few knows of her creative activity as a painter. The exhibition in the museum “Bourganov house” is dedicated to this very field of her creativity. Her early paintings are influeced by the works of such artists as Renoir, and Matisse. As Tatiana puts it herself, the impressionists revealed her the realm of ideal harmony in the every-day life. The displayed in the exposition works belong to the period from 1938 to 1941. Her last painting Tatiana creayed in 1942.