The drawing “Dima Goes to the Army” by Ariadna Sokolova is done on a rectangular sheet of yellow thin paper placed vertically. It shows a colored image — a full-length portrait of a young man sitting half-turned to the left.

The face of the person portrayed is not detailed. He is dressed in warm clothes: a gray hat, dark gray coat, dark felt boots. He wears a greenish scarf around his neck, yellow mittens on his hands and a rucksack on his back. The young man sits on a wooden stool near the table on which a samovar (drawn schematically) is placed. The background of the painting is brown. In the lower right corner, there is the artist’'s inscription: “A. Sokolova 23/I 43. Sokolova 23/I 43 y.“. On the reverse side there is an inscription at the top in black ballpoint pen: “Ariadna Sokolova Dima Goes to the Army 18.5×13 43.23.1“.

The creator of the work is the artist Ariadna Leonidovna Sokolova, a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR and the Union of Artists of Russia, winner of the Yaroslavl regional Opekushin Prize, and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. She was born in Yaroslavl and graduated from the Yaroslavl Art School in 1945 and from the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where she studied theatrical scenic painting. In 1998, Sokolova was granted permission by the city authorities to create a museum of contemporary art “House of Muses” in Yaroslavl. The unusual museum was located in the old mansion of Nikolay Bibikov — a surgeon and the author of a poetic adaptation of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”. For a long time, Sokolova maintained the museum on her own; it was a place where creative intelligentsia came to visit, not only from Yaroslavl but from all over the country. However, due to a number of challenges, the museum building was put up for sale.

Following the active public involvement, it was decided to put the House of Muses on the books of the Museum of Yaroslavl City History. Since 2010 it has become a branch of the museum. The decision was implemented with the consent of Ariadna Leonidovna whose only condition was to ensure the preservation of the museum’s collection. The work on display was brought in as part of the collection from the “House of Muses”.