Background
He was born in 1883 in Saint St. Petersburg, Russian Empire.
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Pyotr Otsup
Edit ProfilePhotographer photojournalist war photographer
Career
He worked in photo reporting genre and was taking a lot of historic events such as Russo-Japanese War, 1905 Russian Revolution, October Revolution in 1917, World War I and Russian Civil War. Pyotr Adolfovich Otsup has done nearly 40,000 photos. He got interested in photography in photo saloon, where he was studying during the 1890s.
His career started as he was a photo reporter during Russo-Japanese War.
Beginning with 1900 he worked as a photographer in the magazine Ogoniok. He created the photo portraits of different Russian artists, who worked before the revolution, like Leo Tolstoy, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Feodor Chaliapin and others
Photo portraits of revolutionary politicians and leaders of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, among which 35 portraits are of Vladimir Lenin, which were done during 1918-1922, and also the portraits of Semyon Budyonny, Mikhail Frunze, Kliment Voroshylov, Clara Zetkin, Mikhail Kalinin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Yakov Sverdlov, Sergei Kirov, Vyacheslav Molotov, Valerian Kuybyshev. He is the only photo reporter who was taking the pictures of the Second Soviet Congress.
From 1918 to 1921 during Russian Civil War he was taking pictures at the battle-fronts.
During 1918-1935 he was the Kremlin’s photographer. From 1919 to 1925 Pyotr Adolfovich was working in the Russian Central Executive Committee. From 1925 to 1935 Pyotr Otsup is responsible for the photostudio Russian Central council of labor unions.
On May 5, 1962 Pyotr Otsup was awarded with the Order of Lenin.
He died in 1963 in Moscow, Soviet Union.
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Russian Empire Soviet Union