Selected dates:

January 26, 1908

Born in Priluki, Poltava province (Russian Empire, now Ukraine) in the family of a printer.

1929

He graduated from the Kiev Art Institute and moved to Minsk.

1929-1936

Worked at the State Publishing House of the BSSR.

From 1929

He took part in art exhibitions (out of 20 exhibitions 4 are personal).

Since 1937

I started doing scenography.

Since 1940

Membership in the Belarusian Union of Artists.

1941

He went to the front, with the rank of captain of tank troops, he participated in the battles near Smolensk and Moscow, where he was wounded.

1944

He returned to Minsk to work in the theater. In the post-war years , he was subjected to public harassment through the Izvestiya newspaper, accused of formalism and cosmopolitanism.

1964-1972

Created new cycles of monotypes in lacquer technique.

November 20, 1972

The artist committed suicide.