Having got his first art education at the Moscow school of painting and sculpture in 1844-1846., in 1847, he moved to the Academy of Arts, a student of Professor Bruni. Only in 1852, he received the first prize, a silver medal; but then it began to develop rapidly the ability of a good painter. In 1853 he received the second silver medal for a picturesque sketch of the sitter and started writing on a small gold medal painting: "Achilles mourns Patroclus"; but he received the gold medal in 1857, on the execution of the second program, on "Pericles Anaxagoras visits". In 1858 he received the first gold medal and the title of artist of the 14th class, for the painting "Christ washes the feet of his disciples." After the ICA spent some time assistant instructor of drawing classes of the Academy and an art teacher at the drawing school society for the Encouragement of Arts, and in 1860 he reached the goal long sought, was sent to the pensioner abroad. The first three years he spent in Paris, where he painted portraits and made a copy of part of the Louvre paintings by Rubens "the Happy times of the Regency of Marie de Medici". In 1863, he went to Italy and only in 1867 he returned to Russia. The result of his foreign travel was exhibited them at the Academy in 1868 painting "Susanna", an old man and sketches of Italian women, the types of postuma, Amalfi, chapel in Subiaco, Villa deste in Tivoli; he hoped that these works will be made by the academic, but the academic Council did not give him the title. Since then, ICA has lived a humble worker, teaching drawing and different painting.
