Inventor of the Torpedo, underwater mines, military submarines. Engineer.
Artist, and Photographer (experimental)
In July 1858, a project was approved for rebuilding the photographic pavilion in the house of the Peter and Paul Church on Nevsky Prospekt, and soon Aleksandrovsky transferred the photo studio to a new building.
On May 10, 1859, Ivan Fyodorovich Alexandrovsky was the first in the history of Russia to be awarded the title "Photographer of His Imperial Majesty" with the right to place the state emblem on the signboard.
On November 10, 1866, he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th degree.
In the early 1870s. Ivan Fedorovich built a photographic pavilion in his own house on Nevsky Prospekt (building 61).
The reference book for 1883 mentions a photographer's workshop at 16/7 at the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and Bolshaya Morskaya Street. In 1884, Ivan Fedorovich moved the photo studio to house 9 at the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and Malaya Morskaya Street.
An innovative photographer, Ivan Fedorovich Aleksandrovsky, the author of a number of innovations in the process of photographic printing, the inventor of a stereoscopic camera.
Participant of the spring exhibition of 1857 at the Imperial Academy of Arts and the All-Russian photographic exhibition in memory of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of photography in 1889 in Moscow.
Aleksandrovsky is the author of many important inventions in the field of marine technology. Among them: a submarine with a mechanical (air) engine, a torpedo, a high-pressure air compressor, soft ship-lifting pontoons, etc.
Ivan Fedorovich Alexandrovsky died on September 12, 1894. He was buried in St. Petersburg at the Preobrazhensky cemetery.
The fate of Ivan Fedorovich Aleksandrovsky, as well as the fate of his greatest invention - a self-propelled underwater mine - is a vivid confirmation of the servility and admiration of the ruling classes of tsarist Russia before foreign military equipment, a contemptuous attitude towards the wonderful creative forces and abilities of ordinary Russian people.
Inventor of the Torpedo, underwater mines, military submarines. Engineer.
Artist, and Photographer (experimental)
In July 1858, a project was approved for rebuilding the photographic pavilion in the house of the Peter and Paul Church on Nevsky Prospekt, and soon Aleksandrovsky transferred the photo studio to a new building.
On May 10, 1859, Ivan Fyodorovich Alexandrovsky was the first in the history of Russia to be awarded the title "Photographer of His Imperial Majesty" with the right to place the state emblem on the signboard.
On November 10, 1866, he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th degree.
In the early 1870s. Ivan Fedorovich built a photographic pavilion in his own house on Nevsky Prospekt (building 61).
The reference book for 1883 mentions a photographer's workshop at 16/7 at the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and Bolshaya Morskaya Street. In 1884, Ivan Fedorovich moved the photo studio to house 9 at the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and Malaya Morskaya Street.
An innovative photographer, Ivan Fedorovich Aleksandrovsky, the author of a number of innovations in the process of photographic printing, the inventor of a stereoscopic camera.
Participant of the spring exhibition of 1857 at the Imperial Academy of Arts and the All-Russian photographic exhibition in memory of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of photography in 1889 in Moscow.
Aleksandrovsky is the author of many important inventions in the field of marine technology. Among them: a submarine with a mechanical (air) engine, a torpedo, a high-pressure air compressor, soft ship-lifting pontoons, etc.
Ivan Fedorovich Alexandrovsky died on September 12, 1894. He was buried in St. Petersburg at the Preobrazhensky cemetery.
The fate of Ivan Fedorovich Aleksandrovsky, as well as the fate of his greatest invention - a self-propelled underwater mine - is a vivid confirmation of the servility and admiration of the ruling classes of tsarist Russia before foreign military equipment, a contemptuous attitude towards the wonderful creative forces and abilities of ordinary Russian people.
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