Studied at the Commercial College, Rostovon- Don (1905–1914) under A. M. Volochinnikov; Petrograd Polytechnic Institute (1915– 1917); the New Art Workshop studio (1915–1917) under M. V. Dobuzhinsky, A. N. Benois, A. Ye. Yakovlev, Ye. Ye. Lanceray and O. E. Braz. Exhibited from 1914. Member of the Rostov– Nakhichevan Fine Arts Society (1914–1918), the World of Art association (1917), the Trade Union of Art Workers (1919), the Rostov–Nakhichevan Union of Artists (1920–1922), the Sixteen group (1924), the Association of Artists of the Revolution (1928), the Obschestvo zhivopistsev (Association of Painters) group (1930), the Leningrad Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists (1933). Taught at the First Soviet Art School affiliated with the Art Department of the Public Education Committee (1917– 1920); the Art School attached to Don University (1919–1922); Don University (1921–1922); the Fine Arts Group at the Karl Marx Club (early 1920s); the Institute of Civil Engineers – Leningrad Civil Engineering and Construction Institute (1923–1927, 1929–1941); Leningrad College of Art and Design (1926–1927); Associate Professor at the Repin Institute of Arts (1932–1933). Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, State Tretyakov Gallery (both Moscow), All-Russian Museum of A. S. Pushkin, State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), Pskov and Izborsk Integrated Museum-Reserve, State art museums in Arkhangelsk, Barnaul, Ivangorod, Khabarovsk and Rostov-on-Don.

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