1882, St Petersburg — 1954, Leningrad

Painter. Studied at the School of Drawing, Society for the Encouragement of Arts (1893), worked as an icon-painter at the New Athos Monastery. Studied at Lev Dmitriyev-Kavkazsky’s studio (1903–1904), Higher School of Art, Imperial Academy of Arts (1904–1905, 1907–1913). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1908). Member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1923–1928), Union of Soviet Artists (from 1929), Union of Artists of the USSR (from 1932), exhibitor of the Arkhip Kuindzhi Society (1917–1930). Taught at the painting and drawing courses in Tyumen (1918–1921); Drawing School at the Society for the Encouragement
of Arts, Leningrad College of Art and Industry, (1922(21?)–1930); taught drawing and painting at the Armoured Vehicle Courses (from
1930), at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1947–1954). Professor (from 1948), doctor of art history (from 1948), full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (from 1947). People’s Artist of the RSFSR (from 1953). Stalin Prize (first degree) for works created in 1943–1944 (Duel on Kulikovo Field (Duel between Peresvet and Chelubei), 1943).