Studied at Leningrad Secondary School of Art (1964–1970); the Repin Institute of Arts (1970–1976) in the Faculty of Architecture under S. B. Speransky. Exhibited since 1975. Member of the USSR Union of Artists (1979), the Goldsmiths’ Guild, City of London, UK (1998). Awarded the Jacque Cartier Memorial Award by the Goldsmiths’ Guild (1994), the Freedom of the City of London (1998). Lived and worked in Leningrad (1952–1990), since 1990 in London, UK. Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, All-Russian Decorative, Applied and Folk Art Museum, State Central Theatre Museum (all Moscow), St Isaac’s Cathedral State Museum, State Hermitage, State Literary and Memorial Museum of F. M. Dostoevsky, State Museum of Theatre and Music (all St Petersburg), Novgorod State Integrated Museum-Reserve, Sergiev Posad State History and Art Museum- Reserve, State Borodino Military and History Museum-Reserve (Moscow Region), Vladimir and Suzdal State History, Art and Architecture Museum-Reserve; Museum of Decorative Arts (Paris, France), National Museum (Gdansk, Poland).

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