Short answers, pulled from the story.
Fourteen students walked out of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg during the year 1863. They found the rules of that institution to be deeply constraining for their creative ambitions.
From 1871 until 1923, the society arranged forty-eight mobile exhibitions across the empire. These shows first appeared in St. Petersburg and Moscow before traveling to Kiev and Kharkov.
Vissarion Belinsky believed literature and art should carry social and moral responsibility. Nikolai Chernyshevsky ardently supported the emancipation of serfs which occurred during the reform of 1861.
Two painters named Ivan Shishkin and Isaak Levitan painted only landscapes of Russia throughout their careers. Shishkin is still considered to be the Russian Singer of forest while Levitan's works are famous for intense moods.
Since 1898, the landscapes of the society have been used in the postcard industry. Various books of poems were published with illustrations of landscapes included within their pages.