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Work at the Bakalskii Mine, Color photographs that Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii made between 1905 and With funding from Czar Nicholas II, he set out to document the diverse people and landscapes of the vast Russian Empire.

Overnight Camp by a Rock on the Bank of the Chusovaia River, 1912

Factory in Kyn, Russia, belonging to Count S.

“Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (August 30 1863 Russian Empire – September 1944 Paris, France) was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in color photography of early Russia”.

Photos by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. Part of the city with the Western Dvina.

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Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский. Российская Империя в цвете 1905-1915 г.г.

A Dagestani man and woman, the region is the North Caucasus mountains at the southernmost part of Russia, circa 1905 –

On the Sim River, a shepherd boy. Photo taken in from the album "Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empir.

С. М. Прокудин-Горский. Группа участников ж.д. постройки 1916 год

Prima della rivoluzion e, la Russia degli zar a colori ragazza

“Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (August 30 1863 Russian Empire – September 1944 Paris, France) was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in color photography of early Russia”.

Photographer and chemist Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii documented the Russian empire in full color images years before the 1917 revolution.

Early Russia in Color Photos by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

Shepherd posed near a hillside, Samarkand; between 1905 and 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).

These would a unique homes. Mills in Ialutorovsk district of Tobolsk Province; 1912 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress)