Background
Valentin Aleksandrovich Yakovlev was born on January 14, 1887 in Krasnoslobodsk, Russian Federation.
Valentin Aleksandrovich Yakovlev was born on January 14, 1887 in Krasnoslobodsk, Russian Federation.
After the family moved to Voronezh (1899) until 1904 Valentin Aleksandrovich studied at the 1st men’s gymnasium.
For more than two years, Valentin Aleksandrovich was treated for tuberculosis in Yalta, where he became close to the capital's writers Mikhail Artsybashev, Stepan Skitalets, and others. From 1907 he participated in art exhibitions, in 1908 he published the "Swan" magazine in Moscow with a group of like-minded people from Yalta. One of the organizers (1911) and members of the board of the "Moscow Salon" society, participated in all of his exhibitions.
In 1918, due to the need for treatment, he went to Altai, in 1919 he moved to Omsk.