 In 1927 his canvas "Red Guards at the Winter Palace" (), also known as "Takeover of the Winter Palace" () was acquired for the permanent collection of the State Russian Museum in Leningrad.In 1927 Osmerkin took part in the major art show () at the State Russian Museum, where his works were exhibited alongside the works of Marc Chagall, David Burlyuk, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Falk, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Pyotr Konchalovsky and other masters of Russian art.At that time Osmerkin moved forward with his style, because the peak of avant-garde movements was over right after the revolution, and some trends were losing their novelty, so he embraced a classic and more traditional system of figurative and plastic imagery.