Alfred Fedetsky

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Alfred Fedetsky
Alfred Fedecki
Born
Alfred Konstantinovich Fedetsky
Альфред Константинович Федецкий

1857
Zhitomir, Russian Empire
Died21 July 1902
Minsk, Russian Empire
Occupationphotographer, filmmaker

Alfred Konstantinovich Fedetsky (Russian: Альфред Константинович Федецкий, 1857, Zhitomir, Russian Empire, now Ukraine, — 21 July 1902, Minsk, Russian Empire, now Belarus) was a prominent Russian Imperial photographer and filmmaker of Polish descent, who authored numerous portraits of notable Russian people (Aivazovsky, Tchaikovsky, Ioann of Kronstadt, among many others) as well as members of the Imperial family. He was the personal photographer of Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg.

Alfred Konstantinovich Fedetsky was born in 1857 in Zhitomir, Volhynian Governorate (now Ukraine). He finished Imperial Photographic Institute at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Afterwards Alfred Fedetsky moved to Kiev Governorate in 1880. Six years later he moved to Kharkov. His teacher as well as his spiritual mentor was the photographer Wlodzimierz Vysotsky, who had the title of photographer of the Court of Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna.[1]

Working mostly in Kharkov, Fedetsky was also a pioneering cinematographer. His is credited with being the first Russian to shoot the first ever Russian film (the Frenchman Camille Cerf preceded him by four months, with the film of the coronation of Czar Nicholas II at the Kremlin in May 1896) called "The Grand Transfer of the Ozeryanskaya Icon from the Kuryazh Monastery to Kharkov, on 20 September 1896".[2][3][4][5]

In July 1902 Alfred Fedetsky died in Minsk. On the 26th of July, Fedetsky was buried in the Cemetery of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, in a family crypt next to his wife.

References[]

  1. ^ "Alfred Fedetsky – polish-kharkiv" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  2. ^ Вишневський В. Першi кінознімання на Україні // Радянське кіно (Київ). — 1937. — № 7. — С. 63-66
  3. ^ Zhurov, G.V. From the History of the Silent Film in Ukraine // Журов Г. В. Перші кінозйомки і перші демонстрації «синематографа» // З минулого кіно на Україні. К.: АН УРСР, 1959. — С. 10-12
  4. ^ Shimon, O.O. The End of a Legend // Шимон О. О. Закінчення однієі легенди // Сторінки з історії кіно на Україні. К.: Мистецтво, 1964. — С. 16-28
  5. ^ Mislavsky, Vladimir. The Life of the First Russian Film-maker // Миславский В. Н. Альфред Федецкий. К биографии первого российского кинооператора // Киноведческие записки (Москва). — 2006. — № 77. — С. 163—213


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