About the artist:

Born 13.07.1925, village Kapkany (now Crimea) Painter,  member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine  (from 1953), Honored Artist of Ukraine (from 1972), People's Artist of Ukraine (since 1985), Second World War participant. Studied in the studio of Fine Arts at the Aivazovsky Gallery of Art in Feodosia, under M. Barsamov(1945-1947). Lives and works in Yalta (since 1969). Seascape artist. Also works in the genre of landscape and still life and thematic painting. Since 1952 takes part in national, all-Union and international exhibitions (in particular in Albania, Hungary, Spain, Italy, France and Japan, etc.). Works: "Misty Morning" (1955), "Spring Window" (1960), "The Past and Future" (1970), "Mithridate Mountain." Requiem "(1977), triptych" Ivan and Marya "(1981-1985), "Pain"(1986), "Soldiers were walking... " (1987),"The Sea"," Red Roses"(both in 1989) "Soldier" and "Time to breathe" (triptych, both in1990), Lilac and Iris "(1993),"Friends"(1994),"Wisteria"(1997), and others.