Veniamin Romov was born in 1881 in the village of Malaya Sila, Perm Governorate.
Romov's drawings, with witty captions, appeared in the newspaper Sovetskaya Sibir, and the magazines "Comrade" and "Siberia".
The artist illustrated the magazine "Hunter and Fool of Siberia", according to contemporaries, increasing the circulation of this publication.
[1] In 1922, the newspaper's employees came up with the idea of creating a satirical magazine Skorpion, which would criticize such phenomena as petty bourgeoisie, philistinism, formalism, and bureaucracy.
In 1922, the artist created a series of drawings Novonikolaevsk Types, which were published by Sibkrayizdat as postcards.