Weniamin Leontjewitsch Metenkow

Veniamin Leontyevich Metenkow ( Russian Вениамин Леонтьевич Метенков ; born March 25 ^{. Jul} / 6. April 1857 ^greg. In Miass , Russian Empire ; † 9. March 1933 in Sverdlovsk , USSR ) was a photographer and entrepreneur.

Live and act

Metenkow was born in Miass in 1857. He taught himself to read, write and math. In 1874 he got a job as a clerk in a gold mine. Metenkow also learned photography there. In 1876 he opened his first shop in Miass. In 1883 he moved to Yekaterinburg . At first he mainly made portraits and photos of towns, villages and factories in the Urals . In the course of his work he received several awards. In 1896 he built a studio and shop in Yekaterinburg. From 1904 he was also interested in the new medium of film and made several documentaries. During the First World War and the Revolution he had to close his shop and in 1919 he had to leave Yekaterinburg and move to Tomsk . In 1920 his house was expropriated and his photo archive was lost. In 1922 he returned to Yekaterinburg.

There were plans to demolish his house; however, today it is a museum. It opened on August 10, 1998.

Awards

1887 silver medal at the Siberia-Ural industrial exhibition
1889 gold medal at the exhibition for the 50th anniversary of photography in Moscow
1889 gold medal at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris

reception

In the documentary Couriers and Soldiers, The Conquest of Siberia (3/3) by 3sat , Metenkow first traveled from Yekaterinburg to Vladivostok on the post road to Irkutsk and then later on the Amur to begin construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway to take photographs of the groundbreaking ceremony. However, there is no evidence that this trip actually took place.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Website about the museum ( Memento from September 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
↑ ^a ^b RUS-Art.com ( Memento from July 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian, accessed October 3, 2012)
↑ ZDF Terra-X ( Memento from December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed October 4, 2012)
↑ 3sat information about the program (German, accessed on October 3, 2012)

personal data
SURNAME	Metenkow, Weniamin Leontjewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Метенков, Вениамин Леонтьевич
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Miass , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	March 9, 1933
Place of death	Sverdlovsk , Soviet Union

[1] Website about the museum ( Memento from September 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

[rus-2] RUS-Art.com ( Memento from July 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian, accessed October 3, 2012)

[3] ZDF Terra-X ( Memento from December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed October 4, 2012)

[4] 3sat information about the program (German, accessed on October 3, 2012)