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Russian painter, graphic artist, illustrator, master of portrait and landscape genres. Born in St. Petersburg in the family of well-known cultural, art historian, curator of the Hermitage collections Somov. In 1888 - 1897 he studied at the Academy of Arts in studio Petreburgskoy Repin. In 1897, without completing the Arts, went to Paris, where he studied in the private studio of F. Colarossi. In 1899 he returned to St. Petersburg, was one of the founders and active members of the "World of Art" and the magazine. Exhibited at "World of Art", CPX, "36 Artists" in Moscow (1902, 1903), the Berlin "Secession" (1902) and the Paris Salon d'Automne (1906), an exhibition in New York (1924). Solo exhibitions were held in St. Petersburg (1903) and London (1930). Won fame paintings and graphic portraits turned to retrospective genre, has made an outstanding contribution to the art of illustration, has performed a number of covers and frontispieces for editions of poetry symbolism (for books Balmont, Blok, Ivanov) the most famous of his exemplary cycles - "Count Nulin" A. Pushkin (1899), "Nevsky Prospect" and "Portrait" by Gogol (1910), "The Book of Marquise" von Bley (1908) and others worked on small plastic, porcelain figurines created for the Imperial Porcelain Factory. In 1913 received the status of a full member of the Academy of Arts, and in 1918 became a professor at Petrograd voluntary public art workshops. In 1923, together with the "Russian exhibition" went to the USA as a commissioner from Petrograd, the home did not return. In 1925 he settled in France. Presented in RM, TG, Pushkin Museum, Odessa and Saratov XM, the National Gallery of Armenia (Yerevan) and other museums and private collections.