Maksimovich, Sergey Olimpievich

After the Alexander Lyceum (Petersburg) in 1898, Maksimovich went to study at the Polytechnic in Darmstadt, where he mastered the methods of color photography developed by Hoffmann and Gezeknel . During his stay at the Polytechnic, Maksimovich worked in the laboratories of chemistry, electrochemistry, physics and electrical engineering.

Upon his return from Darmstadt, Maksimovich joined a group of prominent Russian figures of photography, who then worked in St. Petersburg.

He died in the blockade .

In 1901 he graduated from the Electrochemical Department of the Higher Technical School in Darmstadt , Germany .

In 1901 - 1916 he worked at the Expedition for the Preparation of Government Securities (now Goznak ) in St. Petersburg .

In 1919 - 1930 - professor at the Higher Institute of Photography and Phototechnics (later - Leningrad Photokinotechnical College )

Since 1930 - an employee of the Research Institute of Geodesy, Aerial Photography and Cartography .

• 1907 - the discovery of the Maksimovich – Calle effect and other studies in the field of sensitometry had a significant impact on the further development of photography and the development of projection systems in cinema.
• 1909 - improvement of the optical system of a polarization densitometer
• 1909 - together with Prokudin-Gorsky - a patent for a three-color cinema method. (German patent No. 229007 dated December 22, 1909 ).
  • To use the patent, Biochrom Joint-Stock Company was established, which for the period 1910-1914. released several color films.
  • In the systems of color cinematography that existed at that time, alternate exposure was used after two or three light filters, which generated a time parallax and its result was a colored border on moving objects. Maksimovich and Prokudin-Gorsky began to use the simultaneous shooting of two images obtained by a splitting prism and two lenses. One lens was equipped with a green filter, and the second with two changing ones. As a result, better color reproduction was achieved than in two-color cinema, and significantly lower time parallax compared with the Kinemakolor system, Smith-Urban system and others, which was used in England.
• December 22, 1912 (Russian privilege No. 2446) - the development of a new method for the production of color films, with the use of which in 1914 a short color film was shot.

The author of a number of inventions in the field of optics , electroforming and electrical engineering .

• Maksimovich Sergey Olimpievich - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
• Maksimovich Sergey Olimpievich on the site "Biography.ru" , by articles:
  • Lyalikov K. S., “S. O. Maksimovich - a pioneer of color photography and cinematography ”, in the book: Abstracts of reports at the meeting on color photography and cinematography, October 23-27. 1950, M .. 1950;
  • Lyalikov K. S., “S. O. Maksimovich is a pioneer of color cinematography in Russia ”, in the book: Achievements of Scientific Photography, vol. 2, M., 1954.
• IR 7 (619) for 2001. Article by Vladimir Pluzhnikov “SOMETHING IN JULY”