Lena Mukhina, a Soviet writer who wrote her experiences as teenage schoolgirl during the Siege of Leningrad in her diary
Thereafter, Savitsky began collecting the works of Central Asian artists, including Alexander Volkov, Ural Tansykbayev and Victor Ufimtsev of the Uzbek school, and later those of the Russian avant-garde – including Kliment Red'ko, Lyubov Popova, Mukhina, Ivan Koudriachov and Robert Falk – whose paintings, although already recognized in Western Europe (especially in France), had been banned in the Soviet Union during Joseph Stalin’s rule and through the 1960s.
A memorial room of V. Mukhina and a part of her creative workshop were recreated with period furniture and instruments.