186 1 year, under strong pressure, Russian emperor Alexander II had to issue a decree to abolish serfdom on Russian land. However, this move did not really touch the deep-rooted feudal system. Under the slogan of the tsar's "benevolent government", it is still a miserable scene.

One day this year, Lie Bin, then a student of St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, went to the Volga River to sketch, and suddenly found a group of people moving slowly on the beach in the distance. When he got closer, it turned out to be a group of trackers? Young Lie Bin was shocked and angry at the unkempt and ragged images of the boatmen. He is determined to paint this tragic scene and send an unfair roar to the society for these enslaved people. In the next three years, Lie Bin kept coming to the Volga River to collect materials, made a lot of sketches, and finally drew the Tracker on the Volga River with strong artistic shock. In the picture, trackers drag heavy cargo ships at noon in summer, rubbing against the riverbed and dragging them to the end of endless lines. Someone said, "With this painting alone, Lie Bin can rank among the world's first-class painting masters."