Photographer, photojournalist Dmitry Donskoy. Archival photoMOSCOW, January 22 The death of the former personal photographer of the first president of Russia, Dmitry Donskoy, was a great loss for the Boris Yeltsin Museum in Yekaterinburg, many of his photographs remained in the institution, museum director Oleg Lutokhin told RIA Novosti, noting that the museum hosted a personal exhibition of the photographer. «Yes, this is a great loss. There are a lot of his photographs in the museum,» Lutokhin told RIA Novosti. Sport», which includes more than 70 photographs and covers almost fifty years of the life of Soviet and new Russia, from the late fifties of the last century to the middle of the 2000s of the XXI century. Lutokhin did not rule out that this exhibition could be recreated in memory of Donskoy. Donskoy, who worked for a long time as a photojournalist for APN and RIA Novosti, died in Moscow at the age of 86. Prior to working with Yeltsin, he was one of the best sports photojournalists in the country. Donskoy worked as Yeltsin's personal photographer from 1991 to 1997. He was the winner of more than 160 international awards, including such as the International Master of Press Photo of the International Union of Journalists, the Unsurpassed Master (Excellence) of the International Association of Photographic Art (FIAP), the prestigious World Press Photo «Golden Eye» award. RIA Novosti and MIA Russia Today express their condolences to the family and friends of Dmitry Donskoy.
