These color photographs were taken between 1909 and 1912. Supported by Tsar Nicholas II, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) photographed many aspects of the Russian Empire. Prokudin-Gorskii’s specialized camera captured three black and white images of the same scene, using red, green and blue filters. Subsequently, the photos were recombined and projected with filtered...
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