Student of the Academy of Arts from 1901 to 1908 30 October, 1908 - the title of the artist for the painting "Eagle and roses". (Kondakov)
Painter, memoirist, art critic. Co-student of P. I. Petrovichev landscape workshop at the Isaac Levitan at the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture. In 1900, together with P. I. by Petrovichev, N. N. Sapunov and A. V. Manganari, came to Rostov. Left the memories, including on the assessment Levitan Rostov frescoes of the XVII century.