Born in Voronezh (11.11.1903) in the family of Andrei Ivanovich shynharyeva - rural, statesman, General practitioner, publicist, member of the State Duma of the II—IV convocations (1907-1917), Minister of agriculture in the first Provisional government (March — may 1917) and Finance Minister in the first coalition Provisional government (may — July 1917) and Euphrosyne Maximovna, nee. Colaco - teachers of secondary education. One of 5 children in the family.
He spent his childhood in Voronezh and Grachevka (now s. Grachevka usmansky district, Lipetsk region).
After his mother's death (in Sept. 1917) and the murder of the father (07.01.1918, PG., in the Mariinsky hospital) was brought up by aunt Alexandra Ivanovna Shingareva and lived in Petrograd.
Education - Russian Academy of Arts (1924 - 1930), faculty of painting, awarded the title of artist-painter. Thesis in the CVC made.
Died during the siege of Leningrad in 1942.
