1914 he entered the General education Department at Moscow school of painting, where he studied until 1917.
Active participant in the civil war.
After demobilization from the red army was sent in VHUTEMAS, where he graduated in the Studio of A. E. Arkhipov in 1924, the Participant of the 48th Mobile, AHR, ARM and AOA. Participated in the exhibition of the tenth anniversary and the fifteenth anniversary of the red army.