He studied at the educational school at the Academy of Arts. He received a small gold medal for a bas-relief of "Hector in lozhnitse Helena rebukes Paris for inaction" and a gold medal for the sculpture "Russian boys playing plays marlinespike" (plaster copy in the Museum of Alexander III ). This statue, together with a steam room to her statue N. Pimenov : "Young man, plays dice", was welcomed by the poems of Pushkin ("the Young man, full of beauty..."). Made of cast iron, both of these statues are set in front of the Alexander Palace Tsarskoe Selo, near the colonnade. In Rome Logan carved marble figure "Abbadon" and "Young Kievlyanin" (plaster) that brought him the title of academician. Upon return he performed for the St. Isaac's Cathedral are two bas-relief: "the Gospel of the angel to the shepherds" and "the massacre of the innocents" (the South portico). In Moscow, he engaged in the manufacture for the outer walls of the temple of Christ the Savior the enormous relief of images and figures of saints and angels (1847 - 1849), featuring a beautiful pattern and power modeling. In 1854 Logan was appointed Professor of the Academy of Arts.
