Studied at the Odessa Graphic School, and the Society of Fine Arts under K.Kostandi, also with S.Kholloshi in Munich and at the Higher Art School of the Petersburg Academy of Arts, 1895-1896. Studied at the Odessa Graphic School, and the Society of Fine Arts under K.Kostandi, also with S.Kholloshi in Munich and at the Higher Art School of the Petersburg Academy of Arts, 1895-1896. Pupil of Il’ia Repin.
Portrait and landscape painter. Exhibitions: Association of Southern-Russian Artists, Odessa, 1893-1904. MOLKH, 1896-1899; Academy of Arts, 1898.
Spring Exhibitions, Academy of Arts, 1898-1800. Mir Iskusstva group, 1900-1903, 1911-1917, 1922, 1924. 36 Artists, 1901-1902, 1902-1903.
SPKH, 1903-1907; Russian portraits at Tavricheskii Palace, St Petersburg, 1905. First State Free Exhibition of Arts, 1919. Personal exhibition: Novgorod, 1926.