From orrlogion:
The Library of Congress has a display of photographs taken by the royal photographer of Czar St. Nicholas II online. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was given special funding and transportation by the Czar, including a private train, with the commission to create a photographic record of his vast empire. Prokudin-Gorskii used a self developed method to create color photographs at a time when that kind of technology was almost non-existent. The result is a magnificent collection of color pictures of the Russian Empire dating to the to first decade of the previous century through roughly 1915....
Take a look at them. They really are spectacular. This one is of a mine near Ekaterinaburg.
4 comments:
Truly amazing, what a bit of history. Russia in the early 20th century was a unique and beautiful place, a empire caught between two continents and two ages.
Thanks for sharing the link.
This is great . . . and helpful, because the last time I was in Russia, the country seemed to be in black and white, for real. (Remarkable images)
Stunning photos. Thanks for the link.
This is simply remarkable! Many thanks for putting this up!
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