 In a decade, it grew up from 80 to over 300 members.Broad membership and dominance of mature artists born in the 1870s and 1880s helped in establishing AKhRR as a reliable institution, far from ultra-revolutionary rhetorics.During the crackdown on independent art movements in 1932-1933, AKhRR served as the nucleus for the Stalinist USSR Union of Artists, and was liquidated after its formation.