Career
He learned his craft in his hometown of Saint St. Petersburg. He moved from the then-Soviet Union to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States, in 1993. He performed puppet shows on summer evenings on street corners in Cambridge.
He used wooden marionettes set to traditional Russian music
The marionettes were carved and painted by him, and he also sewed the marionettes" clothing. In 1996, he performed shows as part of the festivities at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
He died early in the morning from heart failure on September 21, 1996, at the age of 36, just a few hours after returning home from a show in Harvard Square. On September 22, 2001, five years and one day after his death, a sculpture modelled after one of his marionettes was erected in his memory on the street corner in Brattle Square where he performed.