Education: Mukhina Art College, St. Petersburg. The Russian Union of Artists (RUA) member since 1991. IFA (The International Federation of Artists) since 1993.
Since 1982 studies plastic principals  of impressionism, cubism, Matushin color theory, Sterligov's 'cup-dome' system.

Solo Exhibitions
1991 - “M. Tserush – A. Astrein” – The Writers Club, St. Petersburg
1995 - “M. Tserush – A. Astrein” – The Museum of Sculpture, St. Petersburg
2003 - “Space and Time: Dialogue Astrein - Tserush”, The V. Nabokov Memorial Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Exhibitions
1988 - “Sterligov and his Disciples”. New Passage. Leningrad, Russia
1990 - “Sterligov Group”, The Museum of City History, St. Peterburg
1991 -“Russian-Soviet Contemporary Art”. Bompodo Art gallery. Tokyo, Japon
1992 - “In Richtung zu Malewitsch”. Karenina Gallery. Vienna, Austria
1995 - “Sterligov Group: Paintings from Russia”. Neuhoff Gallery. New York, USA
1996 - “Next to Sterligov”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
1999 - “Sterligov Group”. St. Petersburg, Russia
2003 -“Traditions and modern”, CEH Manage, St.Petersburg
2005 -“St.Petersburg-2004”, Manej, St.Petersburg
2006 -“The Sterligov Group’, “Art Propaganda Gallery”, New-York
2007 -“Petersburg-2006’, Manege, St-Petersburg

Public collections
The Administration of regional museums of St. Petersburg
The Museum of the History St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg
Museum of Nonconformist Art, Art Center Pushkinskaya-10, St.Petersburg
Nordex Concern, Vienna, Austria