In expanding the circle of acquaintances, Fedotov was unreceptive and most of all relied on himself the circumstances that had been formed. The circle of his communication was of a predominantly everyday, everyday nature, acquaintances grew slowly, and all this was an acquaintance of an officer, not a future artist.
The houses in which Fedotov visited were somehow connected with the regiment. The Rodovanovskys’ house, which lived not far from the barracks, on the Eighteenth Line of Vasilievsky Island, was half regimental.
Fedotov was brought to this house by his co-worker, Ivan Mikhailovich Rodovanovsky, and introduced his brothers Pavel and Mikhail, the sisters Olga and Anna; Anna was married to the doctor of the Finland Regiment, Semyon Vasilyevich Patsevich.
Portrait de M. M. Rodivanovsky – Pavel Fedotov 
Retrato de M. M. Rodivanovsky – Pavel Fedotov 
Fedotov and his colleagues in the Life Guards Finland Regiment by Pavel Fedotov 
Portrait of the father by Pavel Fedotov 
Portrait of Anne Petrovna Zhdanovich by Pavel Fedotov 
Portrait of E. G. Fluga by Pavel Fedotov 
Matchmaking of the Major by Pavel Fedotov 
Portrait of Elizabeth Petrovna Zhdanovich by Pavel Fedotov