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Bergamasco, Charles (Karl) (1830-1896)

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Name
Bergamasco, Charles (Karl) (1830-1896)
Biography
Born in Italy, Charles Bergamasco moved to St Petersburg in the 1840s with his mother, a painter. He started as an actor at the French Theatre in St Petersburg but became interested in the daguerreotype process and went to Paris to study it. He returned to St Petersburg to open his own studio and after a few years became well known there and in Europe, winning prizes at exhibitions, photographing at many courts and receiving several decorations. He visited England in 1877 and took a number of photographs of Queen Victoria and her family.
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Assets (84 in total)

Portrait of the Author Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Sergueievitch Tourgueniev) (1818-1883), 1874 (photograph)
Princess Dagmar of Denmark (Marie Fedorovna, Maria Feodorovna or Fiodorovna), c.1874 (albumen photo)
Elisabeth de Hesse Darmstadt, 1887 (silver gelatin photo)
Portrait of the Author Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (Ivan Alexandrovitch Gontcharov) (1812-1891), 1873 (photograph)
Alexandre Arkadievitch Souvorov, Count Rymniksky, General, diplomat and politician, c.1874 (litho)
Constantin Constantinovitch of Russia, c.1870 (albumen photo)
Constantin Nikolaievitch of Russia, c.1865 (albumen photo)
Georges Maximilianovitch from Leuchtenberg, Prince Romanovsky, general of the Russian Imperial Army, c.1880 (silver gelatin photo)
Anastasia Mikhailovna from Russia, 1879 (albumen photo)
Nicolas Nikolaievitch of Russia - Portrait of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (The Elder), c.1874 (albumen photo)
Constantin Constantinovitch of Russia with his sons Ioann and Gabriel, c.1890 (albumen photo)
Portrait of Emperor Alexander II (1818-1881), 1873 (photograph)
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