The exhibition presents a painting in the form of a vertical rectangle. It depicts a group of people on the threshold of a house on a warm sunny day. A girl and a woman stand in the foreground at the open door. The girl with long blond hair in two plaits, tied at the ends with red ribbons, stands on the left, with her back to the viewer, her left hand resting on the door and her right hand put behind her back. She is dressed in an embroidered light-colored shirt and a short skirt, with dark shoes and socks on her feet. The woman is standing on the right, sideways to the viewer, with her back against the wall and one foot on the high threshold. The woman is dressed in a dark skirt, a light-colored wide blouse, soft step-in slippers, and a light-colored shawl on her head. She holds sheets of paper and glasses in her hands folded in front.

Outside on the wooden porch of the house there is a man, a young girl and a boy. The man stands on the left, sideways to the viewer, leaning on the door with his shoulder; he is dressed in a pale green military uniform, holding a cigarette in his mouth, his right arm is bandaged, his left hand is resting on a cane. The girl stands facing the viewer, smiling broadly and leaning with her left elbow on the board rail of the porch, her hands folded on her stomach. She has curly shoulder-length blond hair, pinned back. She is dressed in a light-colored dress with small red motifs and a green knitted jacket with a red bandage on the left sleeve. To the right, on a chair, facing the viewer sits a boy wearing a red checked shirt, a red pioneer tie, short light-colored shorts, and a blue cap. He looks at a sheet of paper, which he holds with both hands in front of him. The background shows a wide grassed open area, and, in the distance, light-colored two-story houses with brown roofs, and trees between them. The artist’s handwritten inscription in red paint, which is in the lower right corner, reads: “1952 S. G. Isaev”.

“Letter from the Front” is a genre painting depicting the relatives and neighbors of a front-line soldier reading his long-awaited letter from the front. The author of the original work is Alexander Laktionov, a Soviet painter and graphic artist, teacher and professor. He was a Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, People’s Artist of the RSFSR and winner of the Stalin Prize of the first degree.