Marine telescope made by M. Trusevich in St. Petersburg

An original and extremely rare telescope in excellent collector's condition. The optics are clean. It was used by officers of the Russian Navy, as evidenced by the preserved photos. The total length when unfolded is 625 mm, the lens diameter is 35 mm. Guarantee of authenticity.

The optical institution of Matvey Ivanovich Trusevich was first mentioned in the address books of St. Petersburg in 1892, however, apparently, it existed earlier. The younger brother of the writer F.M. Dostoevsky, Andrei Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, wrote in his diaries that in April 1888, ".. they took a cab to the Chetverukhins, but on the way they stopped at the Trusevich Optical Store on Nevsky Prospekt. Here I bought glasses No. 9 for myself for 2 rubles, and gave a pince-nez (gold) to fix Mom's), and for inserting glasses into it, too, the 9th number. They charged me 2 rubles. 50 kopecks for this . Dear!". In his diaries dated 1890 and 1892, there are also mentions of Trusevich's store. Thus, by the end of the 1880s, M. Trusevich's establishment was located in the very heart of the capital - in the house No. 56 on Nevsky Prospekt, where the famous Eliseevsky store was located. 

Trusevich's company produced physico-mechanical and optical products, including theatrical and military binoculars of the Galilean type and spyglasses. The founder of the company himself lived at the address Gorokhovaya, 11. In 1905, with the death of the owner of the company, the management passed to his wife Trusevich Ursula-Maria Nikolaevna. In 1910, the workshop was acquired by Benedict Vasilyevich Lehman (formerly the head of I.Y. Urlaub's stores in the department of special tools and devices) and Christian Augustovich Mousse, an optician of German origin (formerly the head of I.Y. Urlaub's stores in the department of general optical instruments). In 1913, the company came under the sole management of a 35-year-old merchant of the second guild, B.V. Lehman. By 1925, the optical workshop was renamed into "Devices and Accessories of Lehman B.V.". By 1931, there was no information in the address books of Leningrad about the existence of Lehman's optical store.