Anatoly Dmitrievich Kaigorodov was a renowned Russian painter and graphic artist. Born into the family of a famous ornithologist and popularizer of natural science, Dmitry Nikolaevich Kaigorodov. He studied at the Higher Art School of the Imperial Academy of Arts under Kuindzhi and Mate, then at the Central School of Technical Drawing of Baron Stieglitz. He studied in Munich and Paris while receiving a legal education at the University of St. Petersburg.

Kaigorodov actively exhibited his works since the early 1900s, participating in numerous exhibitions, including the International Art Exhibition in Munich. After the October Revolution of 1917, he was on the art commissions and actively participated in exhibitions in Petrograd.

In 1920, he emigrated and settled in Tallinn, where he joined the Estonian Central Academic Society of Artists and founded his own school studio. In 1939 he moved to Germany. His works are in several museums and private collections in Russia and abroad, including the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. In his works, Kaigorodov often used the technique of oil tempera and depicted landscapes inspired by "Russian antiquity".