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Extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking more than 100 years back in time.
Nikolaevskii Cathedral (1911)
An Armenian Woman in National Costume (1910)
Prokudin-Gorskii Near the Karolitskhali River (1910)
Kasli Iron Works (1910)
Old Woman Near the Sim River (1910)
A Chapel (1909)
Tblisi, Georgia (1910)
Khan of the Russian Protectorate of Khorezm (1910)
A Shepherd Boy (1910)
Hydroelectric Station in Turkmenistan (1910)
A Georgian Woman (1910)
A Group of Women in Dagestan (1910)
Artvin (1910)
Supervisor of Chernigov Floodgate (1909)
A Group of Jewish Children With a Teacher (1910)
A Switch Operator Poses on the Trans-Siberian Railroad (1910)
Cornflowers in a Field of Rye (1909)
Laying Concrete for the Damβs Sluice (1912)
Woman in Purdah (1910)
General View of the Wharf at Mezhevaya Utka (1912)
Peasants Harvesting Hay (1909)
Handcar on the Murmansk Railway (1910)
A Water-Carrier in Samarkand (1910)
A Dog Rests on the Shore of Lake Lindozero (1910)
Factory in Kyn (1912)
Russian Children (1909)
Emir of Bukhara (1910)
A Boy Leans on a Wooden Gatepost (1910)
A Metal Truss Bridge on Stone Piers (1910)
Nomadic Kirghiz Family (1910)
A Man and Woman Pose in Dagestan (1910)
Sukhumi, Abkhazia (1910)
A Boy Sits in the Court of Tilla-Kari Maosque (1910)
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