Precise facts regarding this Alexandrapol-based photographer have not come to light. Manukov’s pavilion was active, for around a decade between the 1900s and 1910s. The business mainly provided services for individual and family photographs in the accepted formats of early 20^th century studio photography. Offering enlargements of ‘any size’, the studio – as noted on the photographer’s seal - also kept an archive of all the negatives, which is now lost. Much like the production of other studios from this provincial outpost of the Russian Empire, Manukov's portraits contain a wealth of information about the everyday life of Alexandrapol’s populace, their customs, and especially costumes and changes in fashion.

Vigen Galstyan, 2018