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Mikhail Nastyukov
Photographer. Born in the family of Pyotr Nastyukov (circa 1840). Worked in Moscow, Kostroma and Nizhny Novgorod. Official photographer of the future Tsar Alexander III. Took photographs of Volga towns from Tver to Kazan (1866–67) and Simbirsk (1867). Accompanied Tsarevich Alexander and Tsarevna Maria Fyodorovna on their trip across Russia (1869). Published Views of the Volga from Tver to Kazan (1866–67) and Album of Views of the Moscow-Brest Railway Line: First Section from Moscow to Smolensk. Died in an unknown location (after 1883).
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