People's artist of the RSFSR. The landscape painter was Born in 1905 in the village of Vasilevo-Sloboda Nizhegorod - Russian province (now Chkalovsk). He studied in the city of Gorky, V. L. Martynov, L. A. Khnykina. Participant of art exhibitions since 1935. Major works: "the City of Gorky in February" (1946), "ice drift on the Volga" (1954), "a Grove in February" (1961), "Warm breath" (1964), "After the rain" (1970), "First snow" (1970), "Spring awakening" (1973), "Water freezes" (1973), "Winter in the Motherland of V. P. Chkalov" (1973), "Spring is coming" (1974), "breath of Spring" (1974), "At the Gorky sea" (1974).
People's artist of the RSFSR (1976). Born in the village of Vasilevo-Sloboda Nizhny Novgorod province. Worked in the landscape genre. Member of the Union of artists of Russia since 1935. 1935 - the constant participant of regional exhibitions. Exhibitor of zonal ("Great Volga", 1964, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1980, 1985;) Republican (Moscow, 1949, 1954, 1960, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1975, 1980;), all-Union (Moscow, 1950, 1952, 1957, 1967, 1980) art exhibitions. Personal exhibitions (Moscow, Gorky 1955; Kalinin, Kostroma 1959, 1960 Moscow, Moscow, Kalinin, Yaroslavl 1965, Gorky, Moscow, Yaroslavl 1970, Gorky In 1980, 1985, N.Novgorod, 1993, 1995). Chairman of the Board of Gorky Union of artists of the RSFSR (1948-1960).