Cartoonist, graphic artist, publisher

Zinovii was born in Chuguev, in Ukraine. As the son of a soldier who had served 25 years in the Russian Army, he was less constrained by the anti-semetic measures regulating Russian society at the time. He graduated from Kharkov art school in 1899^[1] and went to study art in Munich in the studio of Shimon Holloshi.

Grzhebin was closely associated with Maxim Gorky.^[2]