While studying art at school he lived with his uncle, Dr. Goriansky who had an apartment in the Winter Palace adjacent to the Hermitage Museum, allowing the young student time to investigate and appreciate many of the great works of the world.

[3] During the upheavals of the 1917 Russian Revolution, and after a murderess mutiny aboard his ship, Goriansky made his way towards Poland where he was stopped and placed into a detention camp.

He bid his parents farewell, and joined the loyal Black Sea Fleet in Sebastopol, where he would serve aboard the cruiser Kagoul as a Lieutenant under Admiral Osteletsky.

He found two good friends while studying there in Prof. William Emerson and Prof. Jacques Carlu, a French professor of art and design.

Notable projects of that period include working on the City Bank-Farmers Trust skyscraper in Manhattan, New York (20 Exchange Place) and being instrumental in the exterior design of the upper half of the building and the concept of the flat top, among the first in NYC.

Ranging from spiritual and biblical themes, to still lifes, landscapes, figure studies and architectural renderings, signing his works LVG / BTS in a red square.