Studied at the Drawing School of the All-Russian Society for the Encouragement of Arts (1918–1920) under A. R. Eberling; PGSKhUM – VKhUTEMAS, Pg – VKhUTEIN, Pg–L (1920–1926) under O. E. Braz, N. E. Radlov, M. V. Dobuzhinsky and K. S. Petrov-Vodkin. Exhibited from 1924. Worked as an artist at the Petrograd Institute of the Rhythm of Perfect Movement (1923), the Theatre of the Proletarian Actor, the Stroika (Construction Site) and Ensemble theatres (1920s), the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre – Kirov Theatre (from 1931), the Maly Opera Theatre (from 1937), the Bolshoi Drama Theatre (from 1940), the Maly Drama Theatre (from 1954), the Ye. Demmeni State Puppet Theatre (1957), the Music Hall, the Young Ballet Theatre (1969), in the Choreographic Miniatures company (1971–1973), at the Leningrad Circus and other venues. Awarded the Stalin Prize 2nd class (1950), Honoured Art Worker of the RSFSR (1960). Main collections: Russian National Museum of Music, State Central Theatre Museum (both Moscow), State Museum of Theatre and Music, State Russian Museum (both St Petersburg), State art museums in Bratsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Ufa, Yaroslavl, the P. I. Tchaikovsky Museum-Estate (Votkinsk).

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