Winner of international awards. Member of the Union of Russian Artists. Lives and works in St. Petersburg. Participated in more than a hundred art exhibitions (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Riga, Vilnius, Erfurt, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Limoges, Sydney, Toronto, New York, London etc.)
1978 Podolsk Town Museum 1978 State Literature Museum, Moscow 1982 International Award for Remarkable Artistic Achievement on the III Quadriennale of Applied Arts in Erfurt, Germany 1988 Grand Prix of the Leningrad Committee of The Union of Russian Artists 1990 State Literature Museum of Dostoyevsky, St Petersburg
1991 The Moscow Kremlin Museums 1993 The Stadtsparkasse Exhibition, Herdecke, Germany 1994 The Moscow Kremlin Museums 1996 Ante Galerie, Dortmund, Germany 1998 Villa Mullensiefen, Witten, Germany 2012 «Royal Portraits», William Kent House, the Ritz, London
| The Moscow Kremlin Museums | The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg | | Collection of Queen Elizabeth II, London | The Enamel Museum, Limoges | | State Historical Museum, Moscow | State Museum of the History of St Petersburg | | State Literature Museum, Moscow | Literature Museum of Dostoyevsky, St Petersburg | | The Museum & Nature Reserve «Tsaritsyno». Moscow | | All-Russia Museum of Applied Arts, Moscow |
Enamel appears in fire. The material is fluid and soft. Like a drop of water, it refracts light and reflects the sky. It is like sky, the blue, light blue and violet colours suit it, although it can also be grey or purple. Enamel is luminous. Small spots or minute strokes, which create an image, vibrate like air, they fill in the space of a little plate with air. You look at a miniature and you see the entire world, something that a glancing eye is unable to mention. I used to work with a temperature self-adjusting oven, later with a computerized one. And now I use the simplest of them all, without any tempe-
rature control. There is a certain contact with the oven; the contact gives a precise signal, which is like a click. The click means that the time has come. Enamel cools down so beautifully, fresh from the oven... At first, the image is pale, but later the colours develop and become brighter. You have a feeling that this colour will never change, it will be the same tomorrow and a century later. Enamels, appeared in the XVIIth century as well as those in the Xth century, didn’t change at all. Alexei Maximov
"In 1991 the Kremlin Armory Chamber staged his personal exhibition. That was the first temporary exhibition of modern art shown in the Armoury, together with works of famous Russian and European masters. The artist has deserved this privilege because of his masterly use of the most difficult technique of enamel combined with the depth substance." Irina A. Rodimtseva Director The State Museum of the Moscow Kremlin