My first professional education was at an art college in Sverdlovsk, then I entered the Saint Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, graduated from the Faculty of Graphics. Since the education of an artist at the Academy of Arts was quite traditional, soon this was not enough for me. We created an art group with my several classmates and began to engage in creative searches actively. In 1993, we had our first exhibition abroad, in Belgium. In my senior year, I became a laureate of a competition in Paris dedicated to the interpretation of Poussin paintings, and participated in an exhibition in France. From these small but important victories, the beginning of my creative path was formed.
