Otsup P.A. (1883-1963), photographer

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OTSUP Peter Adolfovich (1883, St. Petersburg 1963), photographer, initiator of Russian photo reporting. In 1890s he worked as a pupil in a photo studio. From 1900, he worked as photographer for journals Ogonyok, Solntse Rossii, Niva, Nash Vestnik, etc. He created over 40,000 pictures of many historic events, including Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, the Revolution of 1905-07, World War I and the Civil War. In October 1917, he presided at the Second Congress of Soviets in Smolny. From 1918, he lived in Moscow and worked as photographer for the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. He created portraits of Soviet government leaders and revolutionaries, including Vladimir Lenin, Iossif Stalin and Lev Trotsky.

Соч.: Сорок лет на фоторепортаже: (Из воспоминаний) // Сов. фото. 1939. № 11. С. 8-14.

O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin. Lenin (real name Ulyanov) Vladimir Ilyich
Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) Iosif Vissarionovich
Trotsky (real name Bronstein) Lev Davidovich
Trotsky (real name Bronstein) Lev Davidovich
Сорок лет на фоторепортаже: (Из воспоминаний) // Сов. фото, 1939 Niva (Field), journal
Smolny Architectural Ensemble