Sandler Vladimir Ivanovich

Born, presumably, in 1939 in Vorkuta, where his mother Rosa Borisovna Sandler was in a camp and then in a settlement.

In the second half of the 1950s, he moved with his mother to Leningrad. He entered the N.K. Krupskaya State Institute of Culture; there is no information about completing his studies. The main work of his life was the biography and work of A.S. Grin. In this field, he established himself as a serious literary scholar and documentary researcher. At first, there were publications in magazines and almanacs ("Grin, kotoroy vy ne zvest" - "Volga" magazine, 1967, issues 8 and 9, "Four Years Following Grin" - "Prometheus" almanac, Moscow, 1968, "The Eliseev House and A. Grin's Rat-Fearing Nature", Leningrad, 1972, etc.) His major work was the collection "Around A. Grin. A. Grin's Life in Letters and Documents", in which V.I. Sandler was the compiler, author of notes, and selected all the photo documents (he was a professional photographer), the collection was published by Lenizdat, with a circulation of 10,000 copies, 1972. He was friends with N.N. Grin. In Grin's archive, Sandler discovered unpublished works, which were then included in collected works and published as separate editions. It was not for nothing that the writer V.E. Yarmagaev, who himself wrote about Grin, recalled V. Sandler in the 80s: "Where is this amazing and talented guy now, who himself resembles Grin's heroes, how did his fate turn out?" In addition, he closely collaborated with the Lennauchfilm film studio as a scriptwriter. Together with Margolis Yu.D. he studied the history of the tsarist penal servitude. The book "Through Time... Essays on Revolutionaries" was published in co-authorship in 1968. He took part in the filming of popular science films on Leningrad television, in particular, the film based on the script of Yu.D. Margolis "Mezenskaya Ballad". In 1966, together with Margolis, Yu.D. was interrogated by the KGB in connection with "receiving and storing literature of anti-Soviet and revisionist content" (books by Solonevich, Richard Pipes, Milovan Djilas).

He emigrated with his family to the United States at the end of 1978. He lived in New York, where he organized a small business.