He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists,[1] and professor of painting of the Repin Institute of Arts, who played an important role in the formation of the Leningrad school of painting.
[2] Alexander Dmitrievich Zaytsev was born on June 3, 1903, in Blagoveshchensk city on Amur River.
In 1924 he comes to Leningrad and enters the VHUTEIN, where he studied with Osip Braz and Vasily Savinsky.
In 1928-1932 Zaitsev was a member and exhibitor of the Leningrad association «Circle of Artists».
Among his most known paintings were «Stonemasons» (1929), «Motherhood» (1930), «A Foundry of the Baltic Plant» (1933), «Fishermen on Onega Lake» (1935), «Kivach waterfall» (1938), «On the Neva river»[4] (1947), «On the North» (1950), «A Spring»[5] (1955), «Spring in Samarkhand» (1956), «Working settlement»[6] (1957), «Night on the Neva river» (1963), «A Portrait of fisher women Busarova»[7] (1964), «Toilers of the Sea» (1967), «Lenin and Maxim Gorky in Gorki» (1970), «Twilights», «In fishing collective farm in the North»[8] (both 1975), and others.