When comparing Serov's first masterpieces - Girl with Peaches or Girl in the Sun - with his later, last works (portrait of Ida Rubinstein or the Rape of Europa), it may seem that works that are separated by less than a quarter of a century were written by different artists, or, more precisely , artists belonging to different eras. But, in essence, that’s how it was. If Serov’s own biography is not rich in events, then the time itself was so rich in them that many dates in the artist’s life are marked by “turns” or “turns” in the artistic world and in Serov’s own work.