He graduated from the Imperial Academy of arts in St. Petersburg. Participant of first world and civil wars. In exile in Yugoslavia. The author of the monument to Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian soldiers fallen in the defense of Belgrade and Solonichenko front 1914-1918, built in Belgrade in 1935, After the second world war he lived in the US, where according to his projects built several churches, including the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky in the city of Lakewood and the Church of the Holy Trinity in Jordanville.