Russo-French sculptor; born at Wilna Nov. 22, 1868. He studied drawing in his native town, and at the age of fourteen settled in Paris. As a student under Dalou, his first exhibited work was a bust at the salon of the Champs Elys�es in 1890. Since then he has produced busts in bronze and marble of many distinguished persons, among whom were Count Waldeck, Rambaud, Nicholas de Giers, the Russian ambassador, and L�on Reynier, the violinist. One of his masterpieces is "Ezra Mourning." This statue, in plaster, became the property of the state in 1892, and was given to the museum at Sens; in 1897 it was reproduced in marble. At the Paris Exhibition of 1900 this and other statues, portraits, groups, and mortuary monuments were exhibited; and they received a medal. Among other distinctions conferred upon him, Sinaieff was created a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1901. He is at present (1902) engaged upon a bust of Tolstoi.