Studied at the Primary School attached to St Petersburg A. L. Stieglitz Central Technical Drawing School (1900); St Petersburg Polytechnic Institute (1909– 1912) in the Department of Economics; St Petersburg A. L. Stieglitz Central Technical Drawing School (1911–1912); the Drawing School of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of Arts (1912–1915) under I. Ya. Bilibin and A. A. Rylov; Ya. F. Tsionglinsky’s studio (1911–1912); M. D. Bernshtein’s Art School (1913–1914). Exhibited from 1914. Member of the associations Mishen (Target, 1913), Svoboda iskusstvu (Freedom for Art, 1917), Iskusstvo i revoliutsiia (Art and Revolution, 1917), ONTI (Association of New Art Trends, 1919–1922), Obschestvo khudozhnikov-individualistov (Society of Individualist Artists, 1922–1924), Chetyre iskusstva (Four Arts, 1928). Worked as head of a subsection at the Art Fund attached to the Fine Arts Department of the People’s Commissariat of Education (1919); member of the Commission of the Art Workers’ Union (1921); member of the Artistic Board of Petrograd Institute of Decorative Arts (1921–1923); worked as Assistant Head of the Museum of Artistic Culture (1921–1924); as an artist at the State Porcelain Factory (1920s); for the magazines Zhizn iskusstva (Art Life), Begemot (Hippopotamus), Novyi Robinzon (New Robinson), Mukhomor (Toadstool) and others (early 1920s); at the Gosizdat publishing house (from 1925); as an art editor of the magazines Chizh (Siskin) and Ezh (Hedgehog) (1928–1931). Taught at the State Training Workshops for the Decorative Arts, Petrograd (1920–1921); A. A. Uspensky’s Painting, Etching and Drawing Studio (early 1920s); Leningrad College of Civil Engineering (1929–1933); Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineers (1932–1940); the Repin Institute of Arts (1932–1937); the Painting Studio at the House of Architects (1935–1940). Main collections: State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), Novgorod State Integrated Museum-Reserve, State art museums in Arkhangelsk, Cheboksary, Cherepovets, Krasnoyarsk, Samara and Yaroslavl.

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