An outside student of the Academy of Arts. Received medals: in 1838 - 2 silver for "perspective, depicting the insides of the room"; in 1839 - 2 silver. In the same year - the title of a free artist; in 1846 - the title of "appointed"; in 1848 - the title of academician for the "project of public baths". Honorary free member of the Academy of Arts since 1868
(Kondakov)