Studied at the Stroganov Central School of Art and Design in Moscow (1903–1907) under D. A. Scherbinsky and A. E. Arkhipov; the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg (1907–1912) under A. A. Kiselev and D. N. Kardovsky; the Academy "La Grande Chaumière" in Paris, France (1912–1914). Exhibited from 1909. Member of the associations Studio of Impressionists (1909), Treugolnik (Triangle, 1909), Tovarischestvo nezavisimykh (Partnership of Independent, 1912–1913), Mir iskusstva (World of Art, 1913–1918), the First Workers’ Union of Artists in Petrograd (1918). Illustrated publications on Russian folklore (1910–1913), worked as an artist for the magazines Satirikon (1911–1912), Novyi Satirikon (New Satirikon, 1914); executed Raseya series of artworks (1916–1919), published the eponymous album (1918). Moved from Russia to Berlin, Germany (1919), from 1921 – in Paris, France, in 1920s–1930s lived in the USA and Latin America, from 1927 – in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. Main collections: Bolshoi Theatre Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, State Central Museum of Cinema, State Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky, State Tretyakov Gallery (all Moscow), Institute of Russian Literature, Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Museum of Theatre and Music, State Russian Museum (all St Petersburg), State Museum of K. A. Fedin (Saratov), State art museums in Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Sevastopol.

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