Sculptor. He was born in Odessa, the son of Basil Edwards and Sofia Kirinkoff. He studied at the Odessa Drawing School of the Society of Fine Arts, then at the Art Academy in St. Petersburg. Went abroad and worked in Paris at the Julian Academy. He worked in the art studios in Germany, France and Italy. He studied the technique of marble, worked in the quarries of Massa and Carara. Showing their work at academic exhibitions in St. Petersburg. Finished sculpture for the Museum of Sevastopol Defense commissioned the Naval Ministry. Author of the bust of Louis Pasteur (1887), Catherine II monument in Odessa and in Ekaterinodar, A.S. Pushkin and N. Gogol in Kharkov, etc. From 1919 he lived in Malta. His first marriage was to Princess Tatyana Uktomskaya. His second wife was Rosa Reisz.
Sculptor. He was born in Odessa, the son of Basil Edwards and Sofia Kirinkoff. He studied at the Odessa Drawing School of the Society of Fine Arts, then at the Art Academy in St. Petersburg. Went abroad and worked in Paris at the Julian Academy. He worked in the art studios in Germany, France and Italy. He studied the technique of marble, worked in the quarries of Massa and Carara. Showing their work at academic exhibitions in St. Petersburg. Finished sculpture for the Museum of Sevastopol Defense commissioned the Naval Ministry. Author of the bust of Louis Pasteur (1887), Catherine II monument in Odessa and in Ekaterinodar, A.S. Pushkin and N. Gogol in Kharkov, etc. From 1919 he lived in Malta. His first marriage was to Princess Tatyana Uktomskaya. His second wife was Rosa Reisz.
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