Studied at the A. I. Herzen State Pedagogical Institute (1971–1976) in the Faculty of Art and Graphic Design. Exhibited from 1978. Member of the USSR Union of Artists (1988). Worked in the livre d’artiste genre (1987–2017), bringing out over 70 books through the publishing houses he founded: M.K. Publishers and Kharmsizdat. Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, State Library of Russia, State Museum of Oriental Art, State Tretyakov Gallery (all Moscow), National Library of Russia, Peterhof State Museum- Reserve, State Hermitage, State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Russian Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Magnitogorsk, Tomsk and Yaroslavl; British Library, Tate Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum (all London, UK), Metropolitan Museum, MoMA (both New York, USA), Bibliothèque nationale de France, Pompidou Centre (both Paris, France), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gutenberg Museum in Mainz (all Germany).

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