He authored numerous portraits of notable Russian people (Aivazovsky, Tchaikovsky, John of Kronstadt, among many others) as well as members of the Imperial family.
Alfred Fedetsky was born in 1857 in Zhytomyr, Volhynian Governorate (now Ukraine).
He finished Imperial Photographic Institute at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
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 Kharkiv, on 20 September 1896".
On the 26th of July, Fedetsky was buried in the Cemetery of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, in a family crypt next to his wife.