01/11/2024
Dmitri Yermakov (Russian Empire/Georgia 1846–1916) A Wine Seller with Wine Skins, Tbilisi c. 1880. Yermakov, was a Russian Empire photographer known for his series of Caucasian photographs. He was born in Tiflis/Georgia in 1846, the son of the Italian architect Luigi Caribaggio and a Georgian mother of Austrian descent. She remarried the Russian Yermakov whose surname her son Dmitri took. Trained as a military topographer, he took part in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878).