Studied at Petrograd Technical Drawing School – State Free Art Workshops (1916–1917, 1919–1922) under A. Ye. Karev and V. V. Lebedev; Courses in Theatrical Production, Petrograd (1919) under V. E. Meyerhold; VKhUTEIN, Pg–L (1922–1925) in the Faculty of Painting under A. Ye. Karev and A. I. Savinov. Exhibited from 1922. Member of the associations ONTI (Association of New Art Trends, 1922–1923), SORABIS (Union of Art Workers, 1925–1929), Krug khudozhnikov (Circle of Artists, 1926–1932), the Leningrad Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists (1932). Worked as a theatre production designer (1918); an artistic designer of mass festivities (1919–1930s), on the teams of artists working on the panels Khlopok (Cotton) for the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (1935) and Fizkultura (Sports) for the Soviet pavilion at the World’s Fair in Paris (1937). Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Museum of Theatre and Music, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Arkhangelsk, Izhevsk, Nizhny Tagil, Petrozavodsk, Rostov-on-Don, Saratov, Vologda and others.

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