Dmitri Yermakov

Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov (1845 / 1846 – 10 November 1916) was a Russian photographer known for his series of the Caucasian photographs.

Life and career

Yermakov was born in 1846 in the Caucasus; sources variously give his birthplace as Nakhchivan (present-day Azerbaijan) or Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi, Georgia). His father was the Italian architect Luigi Cambiagio who moved to Tiflis from Odessa, his mother was from a German-speaking community in Tiflis. She remarried the Russian Yermakov whose surname Dmitry took. In the early 1860s Yermakov completed a one-year course at the Military Topographic Depot attached to the headquarters of the Separate Caucasus Corps, where he trained in topographic surveying and printing. Yermakov was fluent in French and Persian, and taught photography in the Royal School Photography Studio in Tehran in 1870s. As a court photographer, he was allowed to take photos of shah's harem women, including Anis al-Dawla. Yermakov also trained Sevruguin, first in Tiflis and then in Tehran.

Awards and honors Yermakov was elected to the Russian Archaeological Society in 1881. He became a member of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Tiflis around 1897, and in 1907 was listed among members of the Caucasian division of the Moscow Archaeological Society. He received awards at the 1878 Paris World Exhibition, the 1879 Moscow Anthropological Exhibition, and the 1882 All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition in Moscow.

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