Vasily Romanovich Zhivago

Russian, 1889–1937

BiographyVasily Romanovich Zhivago (1889, Moscow, Russian Empire – 1937, Moscow, USSR). Photographer, ‘engineer-photographer’ (means he had a university level education and high technical skills). Co-founder of the All-Russian photographic society (together with Vasily Ulitin, in 1915). Chairman of the Russian Photographic Society in 1922-1927. Was in the organization committee, the secretary of the committee for the first in the USSR all-Soviet exhibition of photography, “10 years of Soviet Photography”, Moscow, 1927. In mid 1920s-mid 1930s was a head of photo studio and printing lab in the State Central Museum of Vladimir Lenin, Moscow. Being Polish original was arrested in 1937 as a member of Polish Military Organization [POV] (fake, at that moment 16% or Polish original citizens of the USSR were arrested), he was killed shortly after the arrest. Rehabilitated in 1956.
Z. 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, had several publications in the professional photographic magazine. [Irina Chmyreva, January 2023]

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