1869, Trechakov Gallery won shishkin's first work Noon Outside Moscow.
1873 was awarded the title of professor for "Forest Secrets".
This year, his wife died of illness. By 1880, he married Olga Lagda, a female painter, but Lagda died after giving birth to her daughter the next year. Since then, Xi Shijin has devoted himself to the study of painting creation.
From 65438 to 0894, the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts was reformed. He took part in teaching and set up two landscape painting studios with the famous painter Kuyinzhi at that time. However, due to their different styles, shishkin paid attention to basic training, while Kuyinzhi was good at decoration, which attracted more students. Shishkin finally left the Academy of Fine Arts.