Born 1928, Sorokopenie, Tver Gubernia

Painter, teacher. Studied at an art studio of the Moscow Palace of Pioneers (1940–1942), Moscow Secondary School of Art (1943–1948), Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1948–1952) and the Vasily Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow (1952–1954). Contributed to exhibition (from 1951). Taught at the Vasily Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow (from 1996). Professor (1996). People’s Artist of the USSR (1988). Winner of the Ilya Repin State Prize (1974), State Prize of the USSR (1984), State Prize of Russia (1997). Awarded a silver medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1972), gold medal of the Academy of Arts of Russia (1996), Order "For Merits for the Fatherland" Grade III (2008) and Grade IV (2003).