Rafail Levitsky

Ilya Repin (artist), 1878, Rafail Sergeevich Levitsky, Artwork, Finnish National Gallery - Ateneum, LL/42414

Rafail Levitsky

Other: Rafael Sergeevich Levitsky
Other: Rafail Sergeevich Levitsky
Other: Raphael Sergeevich Levitsky

Born: 1847
Died: 1940
Gender: Male
Active: Russia
 
Russian photographer and artist. Son of Serge Levitsky (1819-1898) who was one of key figures in introducing photography to Russia along with being the leading court photographer in St. Petersburg. Rafail came from a well connected family with photographic, artistic, literary and aristocratic connections. He worked at the studios of his father in St. Petersburg took some of the iconic photographs of the ill-fated Russian Imperial family in the years before the Bolshevik Revolution. The studio was closed by the Soviets in 1918.

Genealogy of Rafail Levitsky

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