Studied at Leningrad Secondary School of Art (1952–1959); the Repin Institute of Arts (1959–1965) in the Faculty of Graphic Art. Exhibited since 1965. Member of the USSR Union of Artists (1975). Worked as an artist in Russian and foreign publishing houses (since the 1970s). Awarded the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts (2003). Lives and works in St Petersburg. Main collections: State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), National Library of Russia, State Literary and Memorial Museum of F. M. Dostoevsky, State Museum of the History of Religion, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Museum of Urban Sculpture, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), Mikhailovskoe State Museum- Reserve of A. S. Pushkin (Pskov Region), State art museums in Izhevsk, Kirov, Krasnodar, Penza, Samara, Taganrog; Vatican Museums (Italy).

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