Rafts on the Peter the Great Canal. City of Shlisselburg. [Russian Empire]
1909 · ShlisselʹBurg, Russia (Federation)
Prokudin-Gorsky Collection · 1905–1915 · Unofficial
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Three exposures through three filters, carried across an empire. Browse 2,601 Library of Congress catalog records from Prokudin-Gorsky’s survey of the Russian Empire, including 1,897 modern color renderings and composites of his glass negatives.
A photographic record of the Russian Empire
Between about 1905 and 1915, photographer and scientist Sergey M. Prokudin-Gorsky documented people, cities, architecture, industry, agriculture, and transportation. His three black-and-white exposures recorded color information through separate filters. The Library of Congress later produced digital color renderings and composites from the surviving glass negatives; album prints remain searchable here as metadata and images but are not added to the Early Color results.
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[Stone gate and Uzvarian fortress, Uznariani Castle in Tsagvery village]
between 1905 and 1915 · Georgia (Republic)
In Little Russia [i.e. Ukraine]
between 1905 and 1915 · Ukraine
Sunset
between 1905 and 1915 · Europe
At the estate. Denmark
between 1905 and 1915 · Denmark
Study of a girl
between 1905 and 1915
On the Danube
between 1905 and 1915 · Danube River
In Italy
between 1905 and 1915 · Italy
On the Saimaa Lake
between 1905 and 1915 · Saimaa Lake, Finland
Lugano
between 1905 and 1915 · Lugano, Lake, Switzerland
General view of Artvin from the small town of Svet
between 1905 and 1915 · Artvin, Turkey
[At Likani palace, near Borzhom]
between 1905 and 1915 · Caucasus
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