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Russian Empire St.Petersburg -Petrograd 4 Art Nouveau Cabinet Photographs of Jewish Children, Photographers: Mark Kadyson, Mikhail Martynov, Karl Kluver - Russian Empire St.Petersburg -Petrograd 4 Art Nouveau Cabinet Photographs of Jewish Children, Photographers: Mark Kadyson, Mikhail Martynov, Karl Kluver Size: 16.5 x 10.8 cm. (6.5 x 4.2 inches) Light wear, some stains. In 1878, a bourgeois from the Kovno province, Mark Petrovich (Mordkhel Peisakhovich) Kadyson, became the owner of a photo studio in the Ley house on Voznesensky Prospekt. Previously, Stepan Solovyov's studio had operated here. The photographic pavilion in this house was built in the early 1860s and over time, having changed many owners, had become quite dilapidated. In September 1881, not far from Kadyson's studio, on the corner of Voznesensky Prospekt and Sadovaya Street, the new owner of the building, 1st guild merchant Zalman Gurevich, reconstructed the photographic pavilion and in August 1882, Mark Petrovich moved the photo studio to new premises. Previously, Karl Goffers' studio had operated here. In 1888, he moved the studio from Voznesensky Prospekt to house 56 on Nevsky Prospekt. The new owner of the studio on Voznesensky Prospekt was Alexander Vitlin. In January 1890, he moved the photo studio to house 52 on the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and Sadovaya Street. Previously, M.I. Rubinovich's studio had operated in this house. In 1894, he became the owner of a photo studio in house 41 on Ofitserskaya Street. Previously, Shlioma Lichtenthal's studio had operated in this house. In 1900, Mark Petrovich sold both of his studios and opened a photo studio in house 40 on the corner of Zabalkansky Prospekt and Klinsky Lane. Karl Ludwig Kluver, from Bremen, opened his first photograph in 1866. He acquired a photograph on Basseynaya in the Doss house (the address is in our photo) in 1869. In 1870, he opened a photographic establishment in Tsarskoye Selo (Not indicated in our photo). Photographs from this period are rare. Mikhail Potapovich Martynov, photographer, has been mentioned in directories since 1898 as the owner of a photo studio in the building at 5 Malaya Morskaya Street. Mikhail Revensky's studio had previously operated here. In 1902, Martynov sold the studio on Malaya Morskaya Street to Pyotr Krestinin and opened a photo studio in the building at 23 Suvorovsky Prospekt. In the summer, the photographer's studio operated in Terijoki. In the 1923 directory, Nikolai Kobyakov is mentioned as the owner of a photo studio in this building.