 Zhdanov was expelled four times from the Grekov Art School in Rostov-on-the-Don but managed to graduate after six years.In 1973, he moved to Moscow and within a year was part of a group of artists who used a wooden fence as an exhibition until authorities knocked it down.The incident, which became known as the "Bulldozer Exhibition," was among the first overt acts of defiance by Moscow's artistic underground.