Theatre. painter, graphic artist, honored. worker of arts of RSFSR (1956). Graduated from. SVOMAS (1920), a student of D. Kardovsky, K. Petrov-Vodkin, V. Shuhaeva. Participant of exhibitions from 1927. He lived in Leningrad. From 1927 he also painted for well. "Light" and "red newspaper", worked in Leningrad. t-RAH. In 1948-58 Chapter the artist Leningrad. t-RA im.Komissarzhevskaya. Illustrated and designed the book. for Leningrad. publisher V. author of the book. memories "When the artist is a sixty" (1964).