Alexey Glandin was born in Odessa in the family of an Italian businessman Leonardo Englandi. Birth name Andreo Englandi.
Member of the Great Patriotic War. Graduated from the Odessa Art School (1949), the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin of the USSR Academy of Arts in Leningrad (1957, workshop of Professor Yu.M. Neprintsev). Participant of regional, zonal, republican, all-Union, foreign exhibitions since 1957. In 1957-1961 he lived in the city of Stalinsk, Kemerovo region, in 1962-1967 he worked in Voronezh. Member of the Union of Artists since 1960. Chairman (1962-1963), board member (1963-1966) of the Voronezh branch of the Union of Artists. Participant of the zonal exhibition “The Black Earth Region” (1964).
He worked in the genres of landscape and thematic painting. The artist’s works have become widely known. The depth of content, relevance and high skill of execution are inherent in his largest works – “Song of the Motherland”, “October Watch”. “Armor-piercing”. His painting “Dedicated to the Marine Corps” is the memory of the lost sailor friends. The author showed a dramatic episode with meager means. seen and experienced by him in the war. In the landscapes of the master, cheerfulness was always felt. They are full of light and wonder at the beauty of the world.
Glandin’s personal exhibitions took place in the city of Podolsk, Moscow Region (1973), Moscow (1973, 1984, 1988), Voronezh (1985). Presented at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Arts (St. Petersburg), Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after I.N. Kramskoy, museums in a number of cities.