Vyacheslav Sreznevsky was born in 1849 in Saint Petersburg to a family of a philologist
Izmail Ivanovich Sreznevsky (1812–1880) and his wife Yelizaveta Fyodorovna, née Tyurina, a daughter of a maths teacher from
Kharkiv. Vyacheslav had three brothers and four sisters. Sreznevsky was an amateur photographer from a young age. In 1882 he invented a special weather-resistant camera for
Nikolay Przhevalsky's expeditions to Central Asia. Since 1878, Sreznevsky took an active part in the
Russian Technical Society: he was the founder of its photographic department, and led it until 1916. From June 1880, he was the editor of the
Photograph magazine. In 1881–84 Sreznevsky published the first Russian reference book on photography. After the October Revolution of 1917, Sreznevsky took part in
Vsevobuch. He became one of the founders and teachers of the Higher Institute of Photography and Phototechnics (now the
Saint Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television). He died in Leningrad at the age of 87, and was buried at the
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