Early 20th Century Russian Empire in Colour by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky [23 Pics]
May 10 2012
Around 1905 Sergey envisioned an immense plan to document the vast land of the Russian Empire. He wanted to apply recently emerging technological advances in colour photography to document the vast and diverse history, culture and modernization of the Empire.
Tsar Nicholas II commissioned Sergey to travel in his specially equipped darkroom railroad-car and document everything that was worthy. Tsar Nicholas II also provided Sergey with two permits that granted him access to restricted places and cooperation from the bureaucrats.
Monastery of St. Nilus on Stolbny Island in Lake Seliger near Ostashkov (1910)
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky selfportrait on Karolitskhali River (pre-1905)
Headquarters of the Ural Railway Administration in the city of Perm (1910)
Summertime location of the exchange in the city Perm (1910)
Kama river near Perm (1910). The bridge still stands today, but another similar bridge has been built along side it. Both are painted white.
Austro-Hungarian POW's (Prisoners of War) in Russia (1915)
General view of the city of Perm from Gorodskie Gorki (1910)
Dagestani man (1904)
Riding on handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway along Lake Onega near Petrozavodsk (1910)
General view of the city of Perm (1910)
A guard and inmates in Zindan (prison), Bukhara (1907)
Greek women and children harvesting tea in Chakva, Georgia
Young Russian peasant women in a rural area along the Sheksna River near the small town of Kirillov
Emir Seyyid Mir Mohammed Alim Khan, the Emir of Bukhara, seated holding a sword in Bukhara (present-day Uzbekistan) (1910)
A man and woman pose in Dagestan (1910)
Workers and Supervisors prepare to pour the concrete sluice for the dam across Oka River near Beloomut (1912)
Beautiful view of Nikolaevskii Cathedral in Mozhaisk (1911)
A shepherd boy on Sim River (1910)
This Chapel is placed on the area where Belozersk was founded (1909)
Women of Dagestan (1910)
Wharf at Mezhevaya Utka (1912)
A man carrying water in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) (1910)
Isfandiyar Jurji Bahadur – Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm (1910)
The bay of Sukhumi as seen from Cherniavskii Mountain, Abkhazia (1910)
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