Studied at the State Free Art Workshops, Penza – Penza Art College (1919–1926) under N. F. Petrov, I. S. Goriushkin-Sorokopudov; at VKhUTEIN, Pg-L – Institute of Proletarian Fine Arts – Repin Institute of Arts (1926–1933) under K. S. Petrov-Vodkin, A. A. Rylov and A. I. Savinov. Exhibited from 1934. Member of Leningrad Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists. Worked in the Experimental Printing Workshop of the Leningrad Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists (from 1938). Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of the History of Russian Literature (both Moscow), All-Russian Museum of A. S. Pushkin, Institute of Russian Literature, State Hermitage, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Museum of Literature "20 Century" (all St Petersburg), Pavlovsky Multifunctional Centre of Culture (Altai Territory), Shushenskoe Museum-Reserve of History and Ethnography (Krasnoyarsk Territory), State art musuems in Kazan, Kozmodemyansk, Penza, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Saransk, Stavropol, Vologda and others.

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