Snimat'
Simon Beattie
Simon at SIMONBEATTIE.CO.UK
Fri Sep 17 08:20:39 UTC 2010
Dear List,
I have been reading about the artist and icon-painter Lev Stepanovich
Igorev. One source I found says:
Сохранились сведения, что художник, живя в Пекине, <снимал портреты с
некоторых знатных китайцев>, а сам Игорев писал в воспоминаниях об этом
времени, что много рисовал, особенно то, <что интересовало его>.
[Sokranilos' svedeniia, chto khudozhnik, zhivia v Pekine, "snimal portrety s
nekotorykh znatnykh kitaitsev", a sam Igorev pisal v vospominaniiakh ob etom
vrememi, chto mnogo risoval, osobenno to, "chto interesovalo ego".]
This was in about 1860. As well as being a portrait painter, Igorev
apparently also took photographs. 1860 would have been quite early for
photography in China. My question is: can "snimat'" only refer to
photography, or other drawings and pictures as well? What did the verb mean
in the nineteenth century? Might it have had a wider sense then?
Many thanks.
Simon
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