Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky [Vlas’evsky]

Russian, 1868–1937

Birth placeKostroma, Russia

Death placeMoscow, Russia

BiographyNikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky [Vlas’evsky] (1868, Kostroma, Russian Empire – 1937, Moscow, USSR). Doctor of microbiology, photographer-artist (amateur). Member of the Russian Photographic Society [RFO] in Moscow (1900-1917, 1921-1929), in 1902-1907 was a member of the Presidium of the Society and a treasure. In 1927 he was an expert-adviser for the organization committee for the first in the USSR all-Soviet exhibition of photography, “10 years of Soviet Photography”, Moscow. In 1920s worked as senior inspector and consultant of the Central Scientific Control Institute, was arrested in 1937 as a member of counterrevolutionary terroristic organization (fake) and killed recently after his arrest. Rehabilitated in 1957.
V. was involved into activity of the Photographic Section of the State Academy of Artistic Science [GAKH] and was part of the Russian Art of Movement. Highly exhibited internationally and nationally in 1920s. He had personal collections of photographs at the large All-Soviet Photo exhibitions in 1929, 1935 and 1937. [Irina Chmyreva, January 2023]

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