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Russian Empire, St.Petersburg, Art Nouveau Cabinet Photograph of Jewish Man, Photo Studio of Aleksey Lezhonov, the photograph could have been taken by Moisei Nappelbaum - Russian Empire St.Petersburg Art Nouveau Cabinet Photograph of Jewish Man, Photo Studio of Aleksey Lezhonov, the photograph could have been taken by Moisei Nappelbaum Size ca.: 16.5 x 10.8 cm. (6.5 x 4.2 inches) Good condition. A peasant from the Pskov province, Aleksey Mikhailovich Lezhonov, a photographer, became the owner of a studio in house 26 on 3-ya Rozhdestvenskaya Street in March 1906. In August 1908, Aleksey Mikhailovich bought a photo studio from Vasily Ivanov in house 6/1 on the corner of Vladimirsky Prospekt and Stremyannaya Street and moved the studio to new premises. Nikolay Khanzhin became the owner of the studio on 3-ya Rozhdestvenskaya Street. The photographer worked in the studio on Vladimirsky Prospekt until the summer of 1912. In June 1912, Viktor Karpenko became the new owner of the studio in this house. In 1909-1910, a new six-story building was built on the site of house 72 on Nevsky Prospekt according to the design of civil engineer Sima Isaakovich Minash. One of the apartments on the top floor housed the photo studio of Alexei Mikhailovich Lezhonov. Among the apartment's attractions was a large pavilion with a glass wall facing north and a partially glazed ceiling. It is possible that the apartment was built specifically for Alexei Mikhailovich. In March 1916, Alexei Mikhailovich Lezhonov's wife, during a difficult time for the family, sold the apartment and all the photographic equipment to Moisei Nappelbaum, a photographer who had previously worked in her husband's studio. Moisei Solomonovich Nappelbaum (1869 Minsk - 1958, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet photographer who created his own creative style of performing studio photo portraits.