1842, Cherepovets, Novgorod Gubernia - 1904, near Port Arthur

Painter. Studied at the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1858-1860), under Alexei Markov and Fyodor Moller at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1860–1863), Atelier de Jean Louis Gérôme and Alexandre Bida, National School of Fine Arts in Paris (1864–1866). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Paris Salon (1866), the Imperial Academy of Arts (1867 and 1873), the Society of Traveling Art Exhibitions (1874 and 1875), the Moscow Society of Lovers of Arts (1881), All-Russian Exhibition in Moscow (1882), International Exhibitions in London (1872) and Vienna (1873). Contributed to over 30 personal exhibitions in Russia and abroad.