Bolesław Matuszewski

His father Aleksander was translator of French language and his mother was Stanisława Pochowska.

His father taught him French language on advanced level and Matuszewski in 80. of XIX lived in Paris where he studied.

Matuszewski's firm between 1897 and 1899 cooperated with Polish weekly magazine „Tygodnik Illustrowany”.

In 1897, after assuming the position of photographer to Tsar Nicholas II,[3] he used the Lumières' Cinématographe to record the official visit to St. Petersburg, of the French President Félix Faure.

After the visit, Otto von Bismarck accused Faure of not baring his head before the Russian flag on his disembarkation.

Bolesław Matuszewski
The cover of Matuszewski's 1898 book Une nouvelle source de l'histoire. (A New Source of History) , the first publication about documentary function of cinematography.