Alfred Fedetsky

Alfred Konstantinovich Fedetsky (, 1857, Zhitomir, Russian Empire, now Ukraine, — 21 July 1902, Minsk, Russian Empire, now Belarus) was a prominent Ukrainian photographer and filmmaker of Polish descent, who authored numerous portraits of famous Russian people (Aivazovsky, Tchaikovsky, Ioann of Kronstadt, among many others) as well as members of the Imperial family. He was the personal photographer of Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg.
Working mostly in Kharkov, Fedetsky was also a pioneering cinematographer. His is credited with being the first Russian to shoot the first ever Russian film (the Frenchman Camille Cerf preceded him by four months, with the film of the coronation of Czar Nicholas II at the Kremlin in May 1896) called "The Grand Transfer of the Ozeryanskaya Icon from the Kuryazh Monastery to Kharkov, on 20 September 1896".