Born in D. Itmanovo Nizhny Novgorod province. He studied at the NHT. Worked mainly in the genre of portrait. Member of the Union of artists of Russia since 1934. With 1926.- participant of art exhibitions: five regions of the RSFSR (Moscow 1936), Union for the twentieth anniversary of the Komsomol (Moscow 1939), II exhibition of artists of the periphery (Moscow 1940). He taught at the finished the art school (1935-1936). A veteran of the great Patriotic war (1941-1945).