Leonid Zhdanov

Leonid Zhdanov (Russian: Леонид Тимофеевич Жданов; 1927–2009) was a Russian dancer and photographer. Younger brother of a dancer Yury Zhdanov.

Biography

Zhdanov was born on June 23, 1927 in Moscow, Russia. He was a pupil of Nikolai Tarasov at the Moscow Ballet School. Like his elder brother Yury he joined the Bolshoi Ballet company after the graduation. He participated in double roles with such famous principal dancers as Galina Ulanova, Raisa Struchkova, Maya Plisetskaya, Alicia Alonso, and many others. Later on, he became a teacher at the Bolshoi Theatre where he taught such dancers as Dmitry Gudanov and Andrei Fedotov. One of his last students was Vladislav Lantratov.

He also was a painter and a dance photographer. Inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson, a French photographer he kept a collection of 400,000 negatives of his ballet photos. Few books on ballet, included an album about art of Maya Plisetskaya and two albums about Moscow Ballet School based on his photographs were published.

He died on May 14, 2009.[1]

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References
  1. Saul Marziali (August 2010). "A Tribute to Leonid Zhdanov". Retrieved October 11, 2013.



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