Born in 1920 in Krasnodar. In 1938 he graduated from ten classes in the Krasnodar high school №42. He studied at the Krasnodar art College and in the Republican art College im. Benkov (Tashkent), the theatrical-decorative Department of which he graduated in 1950 he Joined the Union of Soviet artists in 1951. He was elected Chairman of the audit Committee, member of the Board of the Union of artists and the Art Fund of Uzbekistan. He worked as chief artist of the publishing house of the Central Committee of youth of Uzbekistan "the Young guard" and Goskomizdat of the Council of Ministers Uzbek the Soviet Union. Member of the Union of journalists of the USSR since 1970 and the all-Russian Theatrical society since 1977. Technique: color pencil, lithography, drawing pen, watercolor. Since 1975 has lived and worked in Krasnodar. Over the last 10 years lived and worked in St. Petersburg. Participated in Republican, all-Union and solo exhibitions since 1951 ..
Personal:
1959 - Tbilisi
1963 - Tashkent
1967 - Montreal (Expo 67)
1969 - Tashkent
1972 - Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) – Palace of Arts them.
K. S. Stanislavsky.
1972 - Krasnodar
1976 - Moscow (actor's House)
1977 - Moscow ( arts)
1978 - Krasnodar
1979 - Krasnodar (Regional art Museum. A. V. Lunacharsky)
1979 - Sochi
1982 - Moscow (House of journalists)
1982 - Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) – Academic Comedy theatre
1985 - the Leningrad (St. Petersburg), State Museum of the history
Leningrad (exhibition of portraits from the number presented to the city of Leningrad)
Major works:
1967 - Album "Bukhara" (12 lithographs). Publishing House "Soyuzeksport".
196... g. "Mat "At the bottom" (10 lithographs).
1968 - Publisher the Art Fund of Uzbekistan
1979 - "OSTROVSKY AT the MALY THEATER" (16 Rev). "Fine
art." Moscow.
1979 - "the Moscow art theatre – actors and Brasov" (32 Rev.). "Fine
art." Moscow.
1985 - "the ACTORS of the MALY THEATER" (32 open.) "Fine arts".
Moscow.
1988 - "the ACTORS IN the ROLES of" Big Drama theatre. Gorky.
(16 open.) "Fine arts". Moscow.
1989 - "CLOWNS of the SOVIET CIRCUS" (16 open.) "Fine
art." Moscow.
Part of the collection of R. V. Levitskiy donated to the city of St. Petersburg.
Part of the collection is located at the Bakhrushin Museum.
(Biography from the archives of the I. I. Gerzhod.)