Nar thin USSR (1958), academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1947). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1941. Graduated from St. Petersburg. University (1914) and Petrograd. AH (1916). Since 1926, a member of the AHRR. In 1921-29 and 1935-41 he taught at the Leningrad. VKhUTEINE - LIZSA, since 1946 - in MIPIDI, since 1952 - in Moscow. thin in-those. In 1947-66, vice president of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. Monuments to V. Volodarsky in Leningrad (1922), victims of January 9, 1905 in Leningrad (1930), V. Chapaev in Kuibyshev (1932), T. Shevchenko in Kharkov (1935) and Kiev (1938), Lenin in Ulyanovsk (1940) , I. Repin in Moscow (1949), I. Michurin in Michurinsk (1950), M. Kalinin in Leningrad (1955), statues and groups for the station Mosk. metro station “Ploshchad Revolyutsii” (1936–39) and Izmailovsky Park (1944), a statue of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1942, 1951), and other works. Laureate of Art. etc. (1941, 1943, 1950). The author of the book. “The sculptor about his work” (1940-52).
A native of St. Petersburg. He studied drawing with his father, a painter and a teacher, then sculpting in the elementary school at the Central Technical University, Baron Stieglitz, a student of academician M.A. He continued his studies in the drawing in the workshop of Professor AH V. E. Savinsky (1908–1909). He graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Department of St. Petersburg University (1909-1913). He attended evening classes of RSHOP, studied modeling under the guidance of I. I. Andreoletti. He studied at the Higher Art School under the IAH (1911–1916) in the class of G. R. Zaleman and in the workshop of V. A. Beklemishev (since 1913). He taught at higher art educational institutions of Leningrad and Moscow (since 1921). He lived in Moscow (since 1941). Participant of exhibitions (since 1913). Professor (1935), Doctor of Arts (1939). Honored Artist of the BSSR (1933), Honored Artist of the USSR (1935), People's Artist of the USSR (1958). Full member (1947) and vice-president of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1947–1966). Laureate of USSR State Prizes (1941, 1943, 1950). The author is carefully modeled in the spirit of the academic tradition of the nineteenth century. monuments: T. G. Shevchenko in Kharkov (1935), V.I. Lenin in Ulyanovsk (1940); statues "Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya" (1942), numerous portraits. Its bronze figures adorn the Ploshchad Revolyutsii and Izmailovskaya stations of the Moscow Metro.
