History of one photo

[Андрей Жданов]

Rome . 1845 . Colony of Russian artists. Photo Russian photographer Sergei Levitsky. Group picture was taken in a gift Vice President Russian Academy of Arts Count Fyodor Tolstoy.

Among the images - architects Fyodor Eppinger , Charles Bane , Paul Notbek Hippolyte Monighetti Stavasser sculptors Peter Nicholas Ramazanov , Michael Wood Screws , painters Orlov Pimen , Apollo Mokritsky , Mikhail Mikhailov, Vasily Sternberg .
First daguerreotype was published critic VV Stasov in the magazine " Old and New Russia " for 1879 , № 12, which is described as shown :
- What's the wealth of material : and architects , painters and sculptors, and all other , and Rome, and Russia , and - above all Gogol ! The writer sits at the center of the composition , it is surrounded by artists, architects and sculptors , on the floor below - naturschitsa - Italian Mariucci . In this beautifully situated group the figure of Fyodor Moller : artist , being tall, stands to the left of Gogol , separated figure watercolorist Andrew Lavetstsari and Fyodor Antonovich dressed in a dark cloak , color - fashionable wide-brimmed hat .
Take a look at these hats theater " Brigante " on cloaks , as if unusually Art and majestic - what unfunny and untalented masquerade ! Meanwhile , it's still true historical picture because she sincerely and faithfully transmits a corner of the era, a whole chapter of Russian life, the whole band of people and lives, and delusions .