Studied at Vitebsk People’s Art College – State Free Art Workshops (1919–1922) under M. Z. Chagall, K. S. Malevich; VKhUTEIN, Pg–L (1922–1926) in the Faculty of Painting under M. V. Matiushin. Exhibited from 1923. Member of the art groups UNOVIS (Champions of the New Art, 1919–1922), ZORVED (1923), October (1931–1932), the Leningrad Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists (1941, excluded 1952, reinstated 1966). Worked in the State Institute of Art Culture (1926–1927); as a textile artist in the P. Alexeev Factory in Shlisselburg (1927–1929); in the Printmaking Studio of the Graphic Art Workshops affiliated with the Leningrad Branch of the RSFSR Art Fund (from 1963). Taught drawing in Leningrad schools (1930–1942), in a school in Biysk, Altai Region (1942– 1945); at Leningrad Art College (1945–1951). Main collections: ROSIZO (Moscow), State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), Shushenskoe Museum-Reserve of History and Ethnography (Krasnoyarsk Territory), Staraya Ladoga Museum-Reserve of History, Architecture and Archaeology (Leningrad Region), State art museums in Astrakhan, Ivanovo, Khabarovsk, Kirov, Krasnoyarsk and Yakutsk.

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