Studied at Children’s Art School No. 1 (1971–1976); Leningrad Vocational School No. 51 (1982); St Tikhon’s Orthodox University of Humanities, Moscow (2002–2006). Exhibited from 1982. Member of the Association of Experimental Fine Art (1982), the Novye khudozhniki (New Artists) group (1982), exhibited with the Mitki group (1985), co-founder and member of the Obschestvo liubitelei zhivopisi i risovaniia (Society of Painting and Drawing Lovers, 2004). Ordained a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church and served in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Kirva Village, Novgorod Diocese, and other churches in the Russian Federation and abroad (1996–2015). Main collections: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, State Tretyakov Gallery (both Moscow), Museum of Nonconformist Art, National Library of Russia, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), State Museum of the History of Exploration and Development of the Norilsk Industrial Region (Norilsk), State art museums in Krasnoyarsk and Nizhny Novgorod; Pompidou Centre (Paris, France), Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK).

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