Alexandr Zhdanov was deported from the Soviet Union by the Moscow authorities 15 years ago, when he was 50. American diplomats, under pressure from the KGB, betrayed and abandoned the gift Zhdanov had made to the American people - 1,500 works of art, the sum total of 35 years of professional work under ideological pressure from Soviet power.

In America "Sasha" has had nearly 80 exhibits - in New York, Boston, Virginia, and Washington D.C. and he has created an entirely new bank of work here, in spite of the spiritual and material difficulties he has faced.

His work can be found in the collection of the well-known collector of Soviet avant-garde art, Norton Dodge, as well as in the collections of Charlotte Brody, Steve Wilhite, Steve Sullivan, Attilla Lousi, Patrick Tracy, Robert Murray, and many others who admire art and are beginning their own collections. A large portion of the Dodge collection hangs in the Rutgers University Museum of Art. In May 1999 the artist donated works to the Zaccheus Free Clinic and Bread For The City, and his work was included in the "Art With a Heart" auction at the National Press Club.

The famous doctor, Mikhail Perepelitsyn, M.D., 30, widely used Aleksander Zhanov's paintings, which carry a special energy capacity, to rehabilitate weak patients' from 1984 until 1987 (until the artist was deported from the USSR). Their energy, on the whole, replenishes the energetic gap of the "third" eye, as well as of the throat, heart and the solar plexus of those people, who take the original artist's work very seriously.

Within a short period, Zhdanov's picturesque canvases were found throughout the entire Soviet Union from Leningrad to Aktoyubinsk (i.e. the west to the north), and from Moscow to Gelendjik (i.e. the north to the south).

In America, the New York parapsychologist, Galina Aleksandrova , determined that the majority of artwork offered to her had an energy capacity of 6,000 currents. After learning this, she kept the "Portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy" for her own personal use.