The architectural richness of the Russian Empire reflected its long history and the cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity of its people. Prokudin-Gorskii photographed medieval churches and monasteries in European Russia and mosques and Islamic schools...
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The Monastery of St Nil on Stolobny Island in Tver Guberniya (Sergei Peokudin-Gorsky, 1910) These are actual colour photographs, not hand-coloured black & white images. Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky was part of the intellectual and technical upsurge that occurred...
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A River Scene (Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, no date (first decades of the 20th century)
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Workers on a Georgian tea plantation. Femmes grecques 1909
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