Shillingovskii studied from 19021
to 1911 at the Odessa Art School and from 1912 to 1914 at the St.
Petersburg Academy of Art under I. Repin, D. Kardovskii and others. From
1921 to 1929 he was founder and dean of the faculty of printing at the
Leningrad Vkutemas, and from 1936 to 1942 he headed the graphic
department of the Leningrad Repin Institute. He died of hunger during
the siege of Leningrad.