In early childhood he moved with his parents from Vologda to Arkhangelsk. Entered the Arkhangelsk city College, but never finished it. In 1895 he went to work as a laborer in a sawmill Surkov. After completing the course at the naval school sailed as an engineer on a tow boat, ships, a private company, visited England, Germany and other countries. During the first world war mobilized into the army, in the battle of Rovno, was seriously injured. Returned to Arkhangelsk, where he again began to work on the tug. In 1908 he published his first poems in the St. Petersburg journal "Derevoobdelochnaja", in 1923 published the first collection of his works "bright anvil", in 1935, the second collection – "Sparkle Creek". Member of the literary Studio of the Archangel Proletkult, permanent correspondent of "the Wave", "Vodnik North", "Water transport", etc., Since 1934 – member of the Union of Soviet writers. The delegate of the First all-Union Congress of Soviet writers in Moscow (1934), the First Congress of writers of the Northern territory (1935). In his poems praising the working man. In 1981 Arkhangelsk boarding school № 1 named after him. A Native Of Vologda.
