Studied at Leningrad Art College (1967–1971). Exhibited since 1973. Member of the USSR Union of Artists (1978), the Association of Art Critics (1998). Works as an artist for the publishing houses Redkaia kniga iz Sankt-Peterburga (Rare Books from St Petersburg, since 1993) and Vita Nova (2007– 2009). Creator and teacher of the Kraski dobra (Colours of Kindness) educational programme for children (since 1998). Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation (2007); Honourary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts (2015). Lives and works in St Petersburg. Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, ROSIZO, State Library of Russia, State Museum of the History of Russian Literature, State Tretyakov Gallery (all Moscow), All-Russian Museum of A. S. Pushkin, Peterhof State Museum-Reserve, State Hermitage, State Literary and Memorial Museum of F. M. Dostoevsky, State Museum of Urban Sculpture, State Russian Museum (all St Petersburg), Zaraisk Kremlin State Museum-Reserve, Yaroslavl State Museum-Reserve of History, Architecture and Art, State art museums in Astrakhan, Barnaul, Ivanovo, Kursk, Magnitogorsk, Volgograd, Vologda and others; Metropolitan Museum (New York, USA), Museum Ludwig (Cologne, Germany).

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