People of the museum: A.P. Zhandarmov

To the 110th anniversary of the birth of the animist photographer, cinematographer A.P. Zhandarmov

30 March 2022 — 31 January 2023

Расположение: Virtual exhibition

Anatoly Petrovich Zhandarmov was born on March 30, 1912 in Moscow in the family of a musician. His father was a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, who worked in the orchestra of the Operetta Theatre. Independently, his grandfather learned how to play wind instruments and took part in amateur concerts at the Moscow Zoological Garden. He took his grandson to his performances. Therefore, even in his early childhood Anatoly Petrovich Zhandarmov got himself acquainted with the zoo. His grandfather and father taught him to play the violin from a young age, but he showed more interest in drawing, and at the age of 16 he became interested in photography. 

After school, he graduated from the Higher Cameraman Courses of the All-Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK). Then he began to work as an assistant camera and later as a camera operator at the Mosnauchfilm film studio (since 1967 - Tsentrnauchfilm), where films about science and technology were shot for the mass audience using micro and macro filming. There the first popular science film magazine for children “I Want to Know Everything” (1957) and the Organization of Associations of Geographical Films (1959) were created.

In December 1941, Anatoly Petrovich Zhandarmov was drafted into the army. During the Great Patriotic War he fought on the Southwestern Front and had been in Romania when it finished. In October 1945, Zhandarmov returned to Moscow and continued to work at the «Mosnauchfilm» film studio.

In 1946, Zhandarmov began photographing animals in the Moscow Zoo. During this time, he started publishing his photographs and camera work under the pseudonym of An. Anzhanov. From 1950 to 1961 Anatoly Petrovich was a staff photographer of the zoo. Here he met A.F. Kohts, the director of the Darwin Museum, and his wife N.N. Ladygina-Kohts. Alexander Kohts invited Anatoly Petrovich to the film studio of the Darwin Museum.

From 1947 to 1990, A.P. Zhandarmov constantly collaborated with the State Darwin Museum as a photographer and cameraman.

In the 1970s Anatoly Petrovich felt the need to share his long-term knowledge in the field of photography and camera work. He became the head of the «Oko» film studio of the club of the Joint Committee of Trade Union Organizations of the Ministry of Finance of the USSR, for which he was noted with numerous gratitude and awards.

A.P. Zhandarmov died on November 30, 1993.


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