Born in Nizhny Novgorod. He studied at the Imperial Academy of arts (1890-1892), but because of the illness of his father left school and returned to Nizhny Novgorod. However, a number of architectural projects, Academic Council found it possible to assign him the title of the artist 1-th degree (1893). The author of the project of the first cast-iron pavilion Kyshtym mining district for the all-Russian artistic and industrial exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod (1896).