Born in Rostov-on-Don 1910.
Studied at Rostov-on-Don Art School 1926-29; INSTITUTE OF
PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE 1932-38; as a post.grad. 1938-44.
Active in Leningrad
until 1940; Zagorsk, Moscow reg. 1944-48; Moscow thereafter. Began
exhibiting 1929.
Important shows include "Twenty Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red
Army",
Moscow, 1938; "INDUSTRY OF SOCIALISM", Moscow 1939; "All Union Art
Exhibition", Moscow, 1946; "All Union Art Exhibition", Moscow, 1947;
"All Union Art Exhibition", Moscow, 1949; "All Union Art Exhibition",
Moscow, 1952; "All Union Art Exhibition", Moscow, 1955; "SOVIET
RUSSIA", Moscow, 1960. Well known works include Hero of the
Soviet Union N.V.Yudin
visiting KomSoMol Tank Troops (1938; Academy of Arts Museum,
St.Petersburg); A
Letter from the Front (1947; Tretyakov Gallery; later
versions in various
collections); Into a new Flat (1952; Donetsk Art
Museum). Taught at INSTITUTE OF
PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE 1936-44; Moscow Correspondance
Teacher-Training
Institute 1967(66?)-70(72?). Became a Soviet academician 1949. Awarded
Stalin Prize 1948.
The favourite pupil of I.I.Brodski; arch exponent of the
highly-finished post-war style of
socialist realism. Died in Moscow 1972.
(Matthew Cullerne Bown:
Russian and Soviet Painters. Ilomar, London)
"Portrait of Stalin", oil on canvas, 79.5 x 59.5 cm, Moscow 1949.