Khorunzhyy Nikolay Konstantinovich

Soviet photographer. One of the first who managed to lay the foundations of scientific and artistic photography, “Science is the Horungy,” - so colleagues spoke of him. The Soviet photo master Nikolai Khorunzhiy loved to draw and at the age of 12 brought his drawings to the famous artist Apollinarii Vasnetsov, brother of the famous author of Three Athletes, Viktor Vasnetsov. A.M. Vasnetsov led the children's painting circle. He believed that the boy had talent and began to teach him, Nikolai became interested in painting and painted several large canvases. His second hobby was cinema: after school, Nikolai decided to enroll in film courses to them. P.I. Tchaikovsky. The director of the operator’s department, the legendary Anatoly Golovnya, who made the films “Mother”, “Suvorov”, “Minin and Pozharsky”, “Admiral Nakhimov” had a great influence on him. His work is close to the traditions of Russian realistic painting, taking into account the specifics of cinema.