Pyotr Otsup
Pyotr Adolfovich Otsup (russian: Пётр Адо́льфович Оцу́п; – 23 January 1963), was a Soviet photojournalist. He photographed many historic events including the Russo-Japanese War, 1905 Russian Revolution, October Revolution in 1917, World War I and Russian Civil War. Otsup made nearly 40,000 photographs. Life and work Otsup was born in 1883 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. He became interested in photography at the photo saloon, where he was studying during the 1890s. His career started as he was a photojournalist during the Russo-Japanese War. Beginning in 1900 he worked as a photographer for the magazine ''Ogoniok.'' Otsup made portraits of Russian artists who worked before the revolution, including Leo Tolstoy, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Feodor Chaliapin and others; portraits of revolutionary politicians and leaders of the USSR, among which 35 portraits are of Vladimir Lenin, which were made between 1918 and 1922, and also portraits of Semyon Budyonny, Mikh ...
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. The rise of the Russian Empire coincided with the decline of neighbouring rival powers: the Swedish Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Qajar Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and Qing China. It also held colonies in North America between 1799 and 1867. Covering an area of approximately , it remains the third-largest empire in history, surpassed only by the British Empire and the Mongol Empire; it ruled over a population of 125.6 million people per the 1897 Russian census, which was the only census carried out during the entire imperial period. Owing to its geographic extent across three continents at its peak, it featured great ethnic, linguistic, religious, and economic diversity. From the 10th–17th centuries, the land ...
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