Vasily Timofeievich Georgievsky

1861 - 1923 (Moscow)

General Information

Researcher of old Russian and traditional church art, archivist, long-term employee of church department. Was a member of Vladimir academic archive committee, Saint-Petersburg and Moscow archeology institutes, Society for protection and preservation of art and antiquity monuments, and other scientific societies, committees and commissions. Author of a book ‘Vladimir, Suzdal’, Pereslavl’-Zalessky: guide’ (SPb, 1913), where most of the illustrations are printed from Prokudin-Gorsky’s photos. He also commentated Prokudin-Gorsky’s pictures during their presentation in March of 1916 on a general meeting of members of Society for Revival of Artistic Russia.