Konstantin Nikolaevich de Lazari ( March 5, 1869 , Kremenchug - November 1, 1930 , Lodz ( Poland ) - photographer of the 19th - early 20th centuries.
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Origin
The genus de Lazari comes from Dmitrios de Lazari - a native of the Greek island of Zante , who entered the service of Catherine II in 1780; as a reward he was granted lands in Karasubazar in the Crimea . Konstantin Nikolaevich’s grandfather fought in the Russian army in the Patriotic War of 1812 .
Konstantin Nikolaevich was Alexander’s brother, the father of Iy de Lazari-Pavlovskaya and the grandfather of Andrzej de Lazari [1] .
Biography
Konstantin de Lazari studied at the Polotsk cadet corps , then at the Radom male gymnasium (Poland) and at the Elisavetgrad cavalry school .
In 1889-1892 he served in the Little Russian 40th Dragoon Regiment. In 1892 he retired and became an officer; carried away by photography.
Being the head of the Lepsinsky district of the Semirechensk region and participating in the Census of the population of the Russian Empire (1897) he sent hundreds of his works to the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography on the way of nomadic life of Kazakhs and Kirghiz, where they are still stored. V. A. Prishchepova writes about his merits for the Kunstkamera: “The collections of K. N. de Lazari were awaited with impatience and appreciation in the museum ” [2] .
Constantine de Lazari traveled a lot. His photos are from Russia, Italy, Switzerland, Holland and so on. stored in the Lodz Museum of Cinematography.
From 1899 to 1915 he served on the territory of Poland (world mediator and commissar for peasant affairs in Novoradomsk and Lublin ). During the First World War he was an assistant to A.I. Guchkov , the Chief Commissioner of the Red Cross in the 2nd Army .
In 1921 he emigrated to Poland and received Polish citizenship. He was buried in the Old Cemetery in Lodz.
Exhibitions
- "STARE ZDJĘCIA" , 2006, Lodz, Poland.
- “Kyrgyz and Kazakhs of the late 19th century” , 2006, Lodz, Poland.
- “The Steppes of the Great Reflection ...” , 2009, Astana .
- "Kazakhstan. Yesterday and today ” , 2011, Ust-Kamenogorsk .
Links
- Nicholas de Lazari, Outline on paper , Łódź 2014.
- Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Peter the Great "Kunstkamera"
- INFORMATION ON GATHERERS OF ILLUSTRATIVE COLLECTIONS OF THE MAE CENTRAL ASIA DEPARTMENT (inaccessible link)
Notes
- ↑ de Lazari A. De Lazari from Karasubazar and Smolensk // Smolensk Territory : Smolensk, 2012, No. 10. (unavailable link)
- ↑ Prishchepova V. A. Illustrative collections on the peoples of Central Asia of the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries in the collections of the Kunstkamera. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2011 .-- 452 p., Ill. ISBN 978-5-02-038269-5