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Sculptor, teacher. Raised at the Moscow Foundling Hospital (1828–38). Studied sculpture under Nikolai Ramazanov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1847–50). Awarded the title of free artist (1850), academician (1854). Foreign fellow of the Moscow Society of Lovers of the Arts in Rome (1862–63). Taught sculpture at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1868–94).