Igor Tale: photography existed...

[Prof Steven P Hill]

Dear colleagues:

Here is another little grievance that I have with Nikolai 
Gavrilovich Golovin and his estate.

Originally I said to myself that Golovin published his edition 
of the "Skazanie" too early, in 1835 -- before the invention 
of photography.  So Golovin could not have photo-reproduced 
the "15th century" [?] original of "Skazanie" which he claimed
to have found.  True.  Photography supposedly was invented 
by Louis Daguerre in France only in 1839.

However, according to the encyclopedia entry on Golovin*** 
(to which Olga Strakhov[a] helpfully directed me), Golovin lived 
till 1865, and went on to write other publications (on Igor Tale, 
1846; on geneaology, 1851-1854) years after Daguerre's invention 
had come into use.  ( I even cherish an ancient "daguerrotype" 
of my own great-grandfather Isaac, handed down in my family 
since it was taken in 1859.) 

***
http://feb-web.ru/feben/slovenc/es/es2/es2-0391.htm 

So what a pity that Golovin or his colleagues (or Buslaev or 
Sreznevskii or Jagic or Shakhmatov, etc.) didn't photo-reproduce 
Golovin's "15th century" original in the decades after 1839, 
when they might have done so...  

Or did they?

With a continuing grain of salt,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.
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