In 1919 Zhukovsky moved to Vyatka. At the same time he worked as a scene-designer and producer at a local theatre. In 1920 the first personal exhibition of the artist was held in Vyatka. In 1921 he returned to Moscow. In the same year the second exhibition of Zhukovsky’s works was held at Bolshaya Dmitrovka in Moscow. In 1922 works of the artist were sent to the First Russian Art Exhibition in the Van Diemen Gallery in Berlin.

In 1923 Zhukovsky immigrated to Poland, lived in Warsaw and Cracow. He painted landscapes of Polesia, Belovezhskaya Pushcha and Svislochskaya Pushcha, interiors of palaces and country estates. From 1925 till 1939 he participated in exhibitions of Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of Arts; in 1923 he was awarded gold medal, and was repeatedly rewarded with honorary diplomas and prizes. Since 1923 he was a member of the art association Zakhenta, since mid 1920s — Cracow Society of Friends of Fine Arts Pro Arte. In 1924–1925 Zhukovsky’s works were exposed at the Travelling Exhibition of Russian Art in the USA and Canada, in 1929 — in Copenhagen.

Personal exhibitions of the artist were held in 1925 at Paris gallery Charpentier; in 1929, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1937, and 1939 — in Warsaw, in 1929 — in Kharkov.

Stanislav Zhukovsky tragically died in the Prushkov concentration camp, where he was taken after the suppression of Warsaw uprising. He was buried in a common grave.

Retrospective exhibitions of Zhukovsky’s works were held in 1971 in Moscow, in 1973 — in Leningrad (Scientific Research Museum under the Academy of Arts of the USSR), in 1973–1974 and 1995 — in Minsk, in 1989 — in Kiev, in 1989 — in Mogilev and Polotsk.

Zhukovsky was one of the most significant landscape painters of the end of the 19th century — the first third of the 20th century. In early works he followed Levitan’s art and realist traditions, which were close to masters of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions. In 1910s Zhukovsky developed his own style, mainly based on careful study of impressionists’ experience. He painted large landscapes from nature resorting to strokes of pure color, preferring bright saturated colors; paid a great attention to lighting effects; it allowed him to obtain the impression of freshness and immediacy of perception. The main motifs of his works were old country parks, interiors with open windows and doors in the park. His paintings were characterized by delicate lyricism and elegiac melancholy.

Artistic heritage of Stanislav Zhukovsky is sufficiently great: the artist painted his works quickly, in one or two sittings. His works are in many private and museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, Kiev Museum of Russian Art, the National Art Museum of the Belarus Republic in Minsk, the National Museum of Warsaw, the National Gallery of Cracow and many others.