Alexander
Leonidovich Dudin

Born in 1953 in Yalta. In 1963 he moved to permanent residence in the city of Gorky. In 1973 he graduated from the Gorky art school. In 1979 he graduated from art faculty of VGIK. Invited to work in cinematography, where she teaches painting and drawing.

Alexander Dudin engaged in illustrating books and magazines. He has designed and illustrated over a hundred books. Participant of numerous exhibitions in our country and abroad. Dudin works are in private collections in Russia, great Britain, Austria, Italy and other countries.

My ancestors from Nizhny Novgorod depths, but I managed to be born in a wonderful, then-Russian city of Yalta. However, a year after my birth, blessed land was stolen from Russia and gifted to the Ukraine. And although in my life I had to roam the towns and villages, Crimea is the only place where I feel at peace with myself. As a child I lived alternately in Yalta at the grandmother with the grandfather, near Kaliningrad (königsberg), in the village of Mayskoye, where his father was then the Chairman of the collective farm, and my mother was a teacher in elementary school and in the village Kyselykha Gorky region other grandparents.

When I was six years old, I decided to become an artist. This decision was taken due to the fact that one day in art class in Yalta kindergarten I painted the boat with a large pipe and smoke on it, and the General opinion my drawing was voted the best. In ten years, I finally moved to a settled way of life in the city of Gorky, where he finished 9 classes of secondary school and then art College.

I was thirteen years old when a classmate Earrings Galina I came across a stack of magazines "America". I traded this pile of logs, after parting with my most expensive thing - the old French revolver. From that time begins the period of my anti-Soviet, Pro-Western orientation, which in the period of Gorbachev's perestroika smoothly flowed in a democracy. Finally my love of the West died in the summer of 1999, when the NATO gang together with our former fraternal countries attacked Serbia. Under the hypocritical mask of a Western friend, I finally spotted the enemy. In 1973, at the end of the Gorky art school I entered the art faculty of VGIK. In 1979, having graduated with honors, served eighteen months in the army. On his return from the army, I was invited to teach at the University where I reside to this day, although a gifted teacher never did feel. While studying at the Institute I was engaged in illustrating books and magazines, that he spent 80% of their creative energy and life, between the book work, engaged in easel painting and graphics.

Used to love to travel. From overseas trip the most interesting was a trip to India that I took in 1995, after traveling the entire country from the Himalayas to the southernmost point of kanya-Kumari.

Lately the passion to move in space has significantly poliglas. Most of all I love to be in his workshop, working, or just idling.

(autobiography)