Professor and Grand Doctor of IUFS. He was born in Leningrad on 9 September 1938. In 1941, the Great Patriotic War against Germany and its allies began. The Germans took my sister, my mother and me straight from our dacha and deported us via the Baltic states to Germany. After the war ended, my mother returned with us to Leningrad.
In 1951, I enrolled at the Secondary Art School attached to the Academy of Arts and graduated in 1959. Whilst at school, I spent a great deal of time copying the old masters at the Hermitage.
From 1961 to 1967, I studied at the I.E. Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Architecture.
From 1967 to 1994, he worked at the Painting and Design Combine on the design and implementation of interior design projects for libraries, clubs, shops, stadiums, restaurants, cafés and other venues.
From 1994 to 2000, he created design projects for the streets of St Petersburg and its historic suburbs (Peterhof, Vyborg, Gatchina).
1) Wolf and Béranger Café (Literary) – street cartouches using wrought iron and hot enamel techniques.
2) ‘Old Book’ bookshop – street cartouches using wrought iron and hot enamel techniques.
3) Pharmacy opposite Kazan Cathedral (design of shop windows facing Nevsky Prospekt).
In 2000–2004, design projects were completed for the ‘Samson’ chain of shops (30 shops: interiors, wall murals)
From 2004 to 2010, he worked on interior design projects for country houses (exclusive furniture, decorative vases, cartouches, chandeliers, etc.)
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