 In the late 1850s the shop went bust, and Zakhar Surikov returned to Novosyolovo, leaving the boy as an employee at a shop owned by his uncle, suffering from near-poverty and humiliation.In 1859 father returned to Moscow where he bought another shop and started trading in iron and coal, bringing his son in, as an aid.In 1860 Ivan Surikov sent a notebook with his own verses to Aleksey Pleshcheyev and was encouraged by the poet's favorable response.