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01-31-2011, 01:28 AM
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Tsarist Russia at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Maksim Dmitriev was born in 1858 in Tambov province. At the age of 15 he became an apprentice of the famous photographer of that time – M.P. Nastiukov, where he obtained basic knowledge about the art of photography. He became famous at the beginning of the 1890's after representation of the exposition called “Bad harvest in Nizhny Novgorod region”, where he showed ruined villages and sick and starving peasants. With this exposition he became the founder of the photo report genre in Russia.
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