3-006-286 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Briner Yuliy Ivanovich with his wife Natalya Yosifovna Kurkutova, sons Leonid, Felix, Boris and daughter Margarita, 1892. The photograph shown here is from a collection of 82 photos from the archive of Yul Brynner (1920-85), the famous Hollywood actor, Academy Award winner, and Vladivostok native, preserved in the V.K. Arseniev Primorsky Regional Unified Museum in Vladivostok. Yul Brynner, whose real name was Iulii Borisovich Briner, was the grandson of the Vladivostok businessman and public figure of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries Iulii Ivanovich Briner (1849-1920), the owner of the lead and zinc mines in Tetiukh (present-day Dalnegorsk) and the shipping company and ship-repair shops in Vladivostok. Most of the Briner family emigrated from Primor'e (the Primorskiy region) in 1931 and lived subsequently in China, France, and the United States. The collection dates from 1923 and the photographs, from different years, depict Yul Brynner himself and his numerous relatives.