Stepan
Gerasimovich Soloviev

Student of the Academy of Arts from 1862 To 1865 - 2 silver medal for a landscape from nature; in 1867 the certificate for teaching drawing in the schools of the County. A painter of landscape. (Kondakov)

The first time he (Karelin A. O.) was assistant to his student, the artist Stepan Gerasimovich Soloviev. Subsequently [he] had your picture in St. Petersburg and a photographic exhibition has received for his work - also on the collodion - Small gold [medal]. S. G. I personally knew at the time when he had your picture and came to the Nizhny Novgorod fair to work, and the apartment stayed with my wife at A. O. His wife in St. Petersburg a herd of cats kept, almost two rooms. Stepan Gerasimovich itself is very good, a soft and Andrei Osipovich, quiet, silent and a master at photography. I in 1890, when I was in St. Petersburg, came to him. Solovyov at this time, your picture has closed and worked on the Nevsky Prospekt in pictures of Westley, and I haven't seen him. (Memories of A. O. Karelin F. A. Fomin)