The Russian Museum of Photography is located in the house where Andrei Karelin, one of the pioneers of the Russian art photography and a true star of the 19th century photography, opened his photographic studio «Photography and Painting» in 1869. The renowned master of daguerreotype took as his student the talented photographer Maxim Dmitriev, who gloriously continued his teacher’s legacy. Today there is a plaque on the museum façade to commemorate both Karelin and Dmitriev.

The exhibition features daguerreotypes, regular and stereoscopic negatives, positive plates, stereopositives, postcards, cameras, photographic enlargers, photo albums, medals, letters, personal items of famous photographers from the 1870s to the present day.