Carl Amandus Borchardt

Carl Amandus Borchardt (1834 – 1892) was a photographer. He arrived in Tallinn in 1853 and, until 1855, worked together with his brother Robert Borchardt as an itinerant photographer in Tallinn and Tartu. In 1855 they moved to Riga; from 1858 Borchardt lived again in Estonia. In 1861 he opened his own studio (Charles Borchardt) on Lai Street in Tallinn. He photographed townspeople and was a creator of ethnographic photographs. Borchardt’s best-known collections are Estonian Types (awarded a large silver medal at the All-Russian Ethnographic Exhibition of the Society of Naturalists at the Moscow University in 1867), the album of Erna von Husen (portraits), and Album von Reval (views of all the stations along the Paldiski–St. Petersburg railway, opened in 1870).