: Before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, a total of 11 foreign teachers had joined the National Hangzhou Art Institute, and the Russian M.F. Domrachev was the one who taught the longest and played the most role. However, due to various reasons, he eventually became a "missing person" in the history of modern art and design. Based on the archives, manuscripts and other historical materials collected by the Central Archives of Culture and Art in St. Petersburg(TsGALI SPB), combined with the existing relevant information in China, and collected the lost, this article restores Domrachev©s identity transformation from immigrant artist to pattern educator and architectural researcher, and strives to reproduce his teaching in the National Hangzhou Art Institute, reveals his outstanding contribution to the early art and design education in China. This research not only fllls the important gap in the development and evolution of early modern design in China, but also provides new evidence and reference for the exchanges between China and Russia in the fleld of art and design in the early 20th century.