The exhibition of the museum presents a portrait of Ivan Alexandrovich Vakhrameev, an honorary citizen of Yaroslavl, who was the mayor of the city for many years.

Vakhrameev was an entrepreneur, public figure and collector. He was born into a merchant family and inherited from his father the enterprise “Trading House of Bread Goods of Vakhrameev and Sons”. After being elected in 1881 a member of the governorate assembly, he began his public activities. From 1889 to 1908, Ivan Alexandrovich was the founder, treasurer and chairman of the Yaroslavl Governorate Academic Archival Commission. He sponsored the publication of scientific works, was engaged in archaeography and numismatics, and had a collection of his own.

The brown background of the painting depicts a thin, elderly man standing with his right arm down, the forearm of his left hand resting on the brown back of a chair with a carved curl decoration. The man has a small, elongated head on a low, thick neck, partially covered by the collar of his shirt, and steep, rather narrow shoulders. Vakhrameev’s graying hair is short and straight, it is combed back. His oval face is light brown; his thick, low-set eyebrows are gray, and he has deep and close-set eyes with small “bags” under them. The gaze is turned away to the right. Vakhrameev is dressed in a long double-breasted coat of black color with a turndown collar, forming a shallow V-shaped neckline. He holds a thin green-covered book in his left hand and there is a ring on the little finger of his right hand.

The portrait is painted by Sergey Sokolov, an artist who also created icons and monumental pieces. He is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia. Sokolov was born on July 27, 1956 in Kineshma, Ivanovo region. He graduated from Ivanovo Art School, and later from the painting faculty of the Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

His works can be seen in the Yaroslavl Art Museum, and they are part of many private collections in Russia and abroad. Sokolov has participated in regional, republican, all-Union and foreign exhibitions.