Piotr Alberti was born in 1913 in Astrakhan. In 1931 he graduated from the Astrakhan Art College, a student of Pavel Vlasov. In the years 1935-1936 Peter Alberti was engaged in the Painting department of the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad. Member of the Great Patriotic War, fought near Leningrad, took part in the liberation of the Baltic states. Since 1939 Peter Alberti participated in exhibitions. He painted portraits, still-lifes, landscapes, genre compositions, etudes from nature. Member of the Leningrad Union of Artists since 1956. Works by Peter Alberti are in museums and private collections in Russia, Japan, Great Britain, France, the United States and other countries.