A graduate of the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture, "who, another student's work kept in the Louvre", a friend of Vladimir Mayakovsky, a talented student of Konstantin Korovin, N.. Kasatkina, A. P. Arkhipova, deservedly respected and leboku colleagues and students. Temperament, conviction and clarity admired, - recalled the artist Ivan Yazev. He loved during class to touch the student's work and did it mostly with your fingers (no brushes), deftly and artistically, with a precise color and tone."