The biographical material on Serge Levitsky is sketchy but the "Répertoire des Photographes de France" states that he was a Daguerreotypist in Germany and Italy. In the 1850s he was a photographer in St. Petersburg and during the early 1860s he was in Paris with a studio at 22 Rue de Choiseul and some of the carte de visite in this exhibition are from that period. He later returned to Russia and the exhibition continues with a number of photographs - of particular interest are those of the Russian aristocracy and the Imperial family.