From age 16 stage-hand at Hermitage Theater, Private Russian Opera Theater and other Moscow theaters. Worked under Bolshoy Theater set-designer K. V. Wal’ts. Implemented ideas and designs of such set designers as K. A. Korovin, V. I).
Polyonov, A. Ya. Golovin, M. A. Vrublyov, V. V. Dmitriyev, P. V. Vil’yams and V. F. Ryndin. From 1897 worked under Stanislavsky and set designer V. A. Simov at Literature and Art Social. From 1898 stage-hand, Moscow Arts Theater.
1906-1941 stage technician and stage manager at this theater. Directed assembly of almost all sets for Moscow Arts Theater productions in this period. Improved set assembly and change equipment and methods.