[Michon, Alexandre Mikhailovitch]. [A fire on the oil field in Baku].

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Impressive document of a fire at the oil field owned by Branobel, the company operated by the brothers Ludvig and Robert Nobel which in the late 19th century produced fifty percent of the world's oil.

The Russian photographer and cinematographer A. M. Mishon (1858-1921) was born to a French family in Kharkov; he later settled in Baku (now Azerbaijan) and lived there for 25 years. Here, in 1898, he shot his first films using a Lumière cinematograph. He is widely regarded as the pioneer of Azerbaijani cinema.