Being braided as a bourgeois and reactionary for his art, and enemy of the people for his participation in the White Army, Chebotaryov met with hard times, bringing a fall from his position as leading artist in Kazan. He survived, however, though with a flattened reputation in Russia. His art was successful abroad and critics spoke of him highly in other countries. He tried but failed time and again to join the Moscow Artist's Union. Finally, in 1970, he was accepted to the Artists' Union, dying just four years later, impoverished and virtually unknown.
