Lansere was the son
of the sculptor E. Lansere.Zinaida Serebriakova was his sister and Alexandre
Benois his nephew. He studied from 1892
to 1896 under Tsionglinskii in St. Petersburg and
from 1896 to 1899 in Paris at the Academie
Julien. From 1917 to 1920
he lived in Dagestan and then until 1934 in Tblisi. After 1934 he lived
and worked in Moscow.