Studied at Kuban Alexandrovsky Secondary College, Yekaterinodar (1897– 1905); the Imperial Academy of Arts, St Petersburg (1905– 1909) in the Department of Architecture; Ye. N. Zvantseva’s Painting and Drawing School (1906–1910) under L. S. Bakst and M. V. Dobuzhinsky. Exhibited from 1911. Member of the Association for Itinerant Art Exhibitions (1915), the societies Soiuz molodezhi (Union of Youth, 1917), Svododa iskusstvu (Freedom for Art, 1917), ONTI (Association of New Art Trends, 1922), Chetyre iskusstva (Four Arts, 1926), the Union of Soviet Artists (1932). Worked together with N. K. Roerich on the murals in the Church of the Holy Spirit at Talashkino, Princess M. K. Tenisheva’s estate (1911). Commissar of GSKhUM (1918), Director of the State Training Studios of Decorative Arts (1920–1922); worked in the Graphic Art Laboratory-Studio of the Leningrad Branch of Union of the Soviet Artists (1934–1938), in the Experimental Printing Studio (1938–1941).Taught at the Higher College of Decorative Arts (1917), Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineers (1924–1941), Leningrad Institute of Urban Construction Engineers (1931–1941), the Repin Institute of Arts (1932–1936). Evacuated to Vologda during WWII (1942). Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, State Museum of L. N. Tolstoy, State Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky, State Tretyakov Gallery (all Moscow), All-Russian Museum of A. S. Pushkin, State Hermitage, State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Museum of Theatre and Music, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Kazan, Kirov, Novosibirsk, Perm, Ulyanovsk, Veliky Novgorod, Vologda and others.

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