Arkadi Wassiljewitsch Schischkin

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Arkadi Wassiljewitsch Schischkin (* 1899 in Kukarka , Wiatka ; † 1985 ) was a Soviet photographer .

Shishkin learned his trade in Kazan and then settled in Petrograd . After the February Revolution of 1917 , he opened a studio in Yekaterinburg . During the civil war he fought as a volunteer in the Red Army . In 1922 he returned to Kukarka, where he worked as a journalist .

Schischkin was a village photographer. He recorded the peasant life of Wiatka, especially for the Moscow peasant newspaper Krestianskaja Gazeta .

literature

  • G. Chudakov: 20 Soviet Photographers 1917–1940. Fiolet & Draaijer Interphoto, Amsterdam 1990. ISBN 90-9003276-2