Ivan Popov (photographer) dating history

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Ivan Vasilievich Popov (1874–1945) was a Yakut artist, icon painter, and ethnographic photographer, often called the first professional Yakut painter by his contemporaries. He was born in the village of Ytyk-Kyuyol in the Tattinsky ulus of Yakutsk Oblast. His ancestors had arrived in Yakutia in the late 18th century from central Russian provinces. His grandfather, Archpriest Dimitrian Popov, was an influential figure in Yakutian Christianity who also collected local vocabulary that later aided the exiled linguist Eduard Pekarsky [ru] in compiling the first Yakut-Russian dictionary. After studying at the Yakutsk Theological Seminary, Popov trained in icon painting in St. Petersburg and later studied painting under Aleksandr Makovsky. He opened Yakutsk's first icon-painting and artistic workshop and painted the iconostasis of the Tattinsky Nikolaevskaya Church (1911–1912).