. Member RSDLP since 1917. He studied at the Odessa hood. Uch-school (1909-12), then in Paris (1912-14). Lived and worked in Moscow. Sculptural portraits and compositions "Lenin" (1924), "the Artist P. Williams" (1925), "Komsomolskaya Pravda" (1927), "October" (1928), "the grapes at the farm (high relief, 1931), etc.
Special education in the Art school of Tiflis society for the encouragement of arts, Odessa art College. In 1912 he moved to Paris, where he worked on sculpture in schools Julien and Colarossi, and later at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. In 1914 he was drafted into the army. Participated in the revolutionary movement in Tiflis and Odessa (1908 he was arrested). Member of the CPSU(b) from 1917. In 1919 he was mobilized to the front. In 1920-23, head of the Artistic part in SDI, then working in the Museum division of Narkompros. Participated in a number of works, chiefly portrait busts at the exhibitions of the Society of easel artists (OST) and the society of Russian sculptors (ORS) in 1925-27.
