Khorunzhiy Nikolai Konstantinovich

Soviet photographer. He was one of the first to lay the foundations of scientific and artistic photography, “Science is the Cornet,” - this is how his colleagues spoke of him. Soviet photographer Nikolai Konstantinovich Khorunzhiy loved to draw and at the age of 12 he brought his drawings to the famous artist Apollinary Vasnetsov, brother of the famous author of “Three Heroes” Viktor Vasnetsov. A.M. Vasnetsov led a children's painting group. 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 named after. P.I. Tchaikovsky. He was greatly influenced by the head of the camera department, the legendary Anatoly Golovnya, who shot the films “Mother”, “Suvorov”, “Minin and Pozharsky”, “Admiral Nakhimov”. His work is close to the traditions of Russian realistic painting, taking into account the specifics of cinema.