 He painted sets for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow based on designs by Korovin (1901–1902), as well as for Moscow Art Theatre (from 1904), the sets and costumes for Meyerhold's 1906 production of Alexander Blok's "The Puppet Show", and theatres of Vera Komissarzhevskaya and experimental Theatre of Alexandr Tairov.His best known paintings are still lifes with flowers and china.At the end of his life he began a series of ironic genre pictures, which he left unfinished, as he wished to go abroad.