On social networks, you can find many publications with sensational headlines: it turns out that the great Russian poet managed to shoot onto the camera. We checked whether the existence of such a picture is possible.
Posts with the allegedly lifetime photograph of Pushkin can be found in "VKontakte", Pinterest, Facebook, Livejournal, Twitter and other social networks. Basically, the picture appears in public, which are devoted to “interesting” facts, but sometimes it can be found in the communities of fans of the writer. Although the signatures for supposedly Pushkin’s photographs are significantly different, some users even claim that the poet personally shot one of the inventors of the photograph of Louis Dager (either in Paris, or in St. Petersburg).
The first experiments that directly lead to modern photography really occurred during Pushkin’s life. The poet's contemporary, Frenchman Joseph Nieps for several years I experienced Different technologies for fixing the image. In 1827, the inventor managed to take a picture “View from the window to Le-grade”, which They think The earliest photograph received using the Obskura camera. Moreover, the exposition of this picture I took it, according to various estimates, from several hours to several days - it is unlikely that at least one model could sit in front of the camera for so long. It is striking how “the view from the window to Le-grade” is inferior as the alleged portrait of Pushkin.
The case of the deceased in 1833 Nieps continued Louis Dager. He improved the process of obtaining a picture, and in 1839 were represented Instructions for obtaining the so -called daggerrotypes. The first photo with the image of people called A year earlier, the picture “Temple Boulevard”, but due to exposure for several minutes, most human figures were smeared on it. But already in 1839 it appeared that in the XXI century it will become an integral part of modern life - a selfie. Yourself Take a picture Pioneer of American photography Robert Cornelius. It is noticeable that this frame is already more similar in quality to the portrait of supposedly Pushkin.
The great poet died In 1837, two years before the world became known about Dager's technology. Even if we assume that the French inventor (or someone else) was able to achieve a similar quality of the image two or three years before the official demonstration of the technology, it is not clear why Pushkin was captured from all world celebrities, and not, for example, one of the monarchs. For example, after the invention of a phonograph of it is practically no mandatory showed The ruling persons to talk about the latest achievements of technological progress. In any authoritative study dedicated to Pushkin, we could not find mentions that he had a chance to pose a photographer. Moreover, No information And that the poet went to Paris for this (and in general for any reason to Europe).
Most likely, we are dealing with a rather skilled photoshop, whose author took an old photo, replaced Pushkin’s face of Pushkin, who was posed on her face, and retired the resulting picture. It is possible that the famous portrait of Kiprensky’s brush was taken as a basis - a tie and a collar in the picture and the canvas are surprisingly similar. We were not able to find the source of Fake, but we can definitely say that he has been for several years - questions about his authenticity began appear Back in 2012. However, this does not prevent users of social networks from spreading inaccurate information and almost ten years later.
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