 At the age of twenty-two, he created his first large-scale work ("The Death of Camilla"), which was exhibited in the Capitol.Ten years later, when the painting was shown in Saint Petersburg for the first time, it earned him the title of Academician.In the early 1830s, he began a monumental painting of "Moses Exalting the Brazen Serpent", but before its completion he was recalled to Saint Petersburg to work on a project at Saint Isaac's Cathedral and teach at the Academy.