1889, Nizhny Novgorod — 1973, Moscow

Painter, museum worker, author of articles on museology. Studied at Andrei Karelin’s studio in Nizhny Novgorod (1900–1908), School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1913), Vasily Zverev’s studio in St Petersburg / Petrograd (1913–1915).Contributed to exhibitions (from 1915). Director of the State Tretyakov Gallery (1932–1934). Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, first chairman of the Moscow organization of the Union of Artists, first director of the Central Handicrafts Museum, director of the Art Fund of the USSR.