Studied at Irkutsk Art Workshop-Studio (1919–1924) under I. L. Kopylov; VKhUTEIN, Pg–L (1925–1929) in the Faculty of Painting under K. S. Petrov-Vodkin, A. I. Savinov and A. Ye. Karev; in the Masters of Analytical Art school (1925–1929) under P. N. Filonov. Exhibited from 1921. Member of the Union of Soviet Artists (1932). Worked as an artist in the Uchpedgiz, Detgiz, GIKHL (State Fiction Publishers), Molodaia gvardiia (Young Guard) publishing houses (1925–1930s); in the Experimental Printing Studio in Leningrad (1938– 1940s). Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), All-Russian Museum of A. S. Pushkin, State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Irbit, Ivanovo, Krasnoyarsk, Vladimir, Vologda and others.

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