Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
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Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (in Russian: Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский), (1863-1944), Russian photographer who pioneered color photography.
Main article about him is found at English wikipedia: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
The existing collection of colour pictures by Prokudin-Gorskii consists of 1,902 photographs, bought from his family by the Library of Congress in 1948. The whole collection of unrestored pictures can be seen at www.prokudin-gorsky.ru copie d'archive sur Wayback Machine, although most of them currently only exist as thumbnails, while some of the 122 that were restored by Library of Congress for its 2000 exhibition can be seen at The Empire That Was Russia.
It is estimated that Prokudin-Gorskii took over 3,500 triple negatives but there are currently only two more known pictures preserved, both of them of his daughter Helene and taken as late as 1934. Those two are still owned by his family.
Colour Photos
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Trinity Cathedral in Yalutorovsk. 1912
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Transfiguration Cathedral in Shardinsk. 1912
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Saint Dalmat's hauberk and helmet, Dalmatovo. 1912
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Assumption Cathedral of the Dalmatovsky Monastery, Dalmatovo. 1912
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View of the Dalmatovsky Monastery from the Iset River. 1912
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View of Dalmatovo from the monastery. 1912
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Vodolazy, near Sverdlovsk
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Woodcutter sitting next to log cabin. 1912
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Aa-76 steam locomotive on the Ural Mining Railway, near Perm. 1910
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Another train between Perm and Yekaterinburg. 1909
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Perm, headquarters of the Ural Railway Administration. 1910
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Suzdal. The Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ. 1912
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Laying concrete on the dam's foundation on the Oka River. 1912
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Cathedral of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God in Ipatevskii Monastery (winter). [Kostroma]. 1910
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Sher-Dor Madrasah in Samarkand.
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Sart fields in Samarkand.
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Horse racing in Samarkand
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View of Artvin
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Armenian woman posing on a hillside near Artvin
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Boy standing by wooden gatepost
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Two men with a boat
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Four people seated on a carpet, possibly Teke
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Irtysh River near Tobolsk
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View of the city of Tobolsk from the north, from the bell tower of the Church of the Transfiguration (Preobrazhensky Sobor). Russia.
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Confluence of the Irtysh and Tobol rivers. Tobolsk. 1912
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Church of the Holy Mother of God, in Tobolsk (1912).
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Church of Saint Nicholas the Wonder Worker, in Tobolsk
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Assumption Cathedral in Tobolsk, today part of Tobolsk Kremlin
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View of Tobolsk from Assumption Cathedral
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Pokrovskoye on the Tura River. 1912
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Trinity Monastery in Tyumen. 1912
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Chapel from the time of Peter the Great, near Kivach waterfall. (Suna River). 1915
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Water pumps
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Nazar Magomet, a local inhabitant in Mirzacho'l
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Oredezh River near Siversky, Leningrad Oblast
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Wall of Assumption Cathedral, part of Ryazan kremlin
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Courtyard of the Church of the Resurrection, Kostroma. 1910
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Victoria regia, Planted in 1912, grown outdoors in Europe for the first time
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Prokudin-Gorskii and two men in Cossak dress
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View from Trinity Cathedral, Belgorod
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Unzhensky Monastery in Makaryev, 1910
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Drying nets on Lake Seliger near Ostashkov
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Russian woman spinning yarn in 1910, Tverskaya region near Moscow
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Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in St. Petersburg
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Man and woman posing outside in Dagestan, April 1904
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Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich's gospel and Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich's sacramental vessels. [Trinity Monastery, Aleksandrov]. 1911
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Gospel belonging to the nun Varsanofiia, the tsarevnas' governess. [Trinity Monastery, Aleksandrov] 1911
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Clock in Prince's Towers of the Rostov Metropolitan Court (XVIII) in the Kremlin. 1911
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Portrait of Prokudin-Gorskii near Kivach Falls, Suna River. 1915
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Forest. 1910
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Holly doors of Fyodorovskaya Church in Yaroslavl. 1911
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Iconostasis in Borodino's church. Borodino. 1911
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St. George's Church near Staraya Ladoga. 1909
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A group of Mullahs sit on the stairs of the Mosque of Azizy near Batumi. Ca. 1910, Georgia
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Georgian woman standing on a carpet outside near a tree
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Joining shop for the production of scabbards at a plant in Zlatoust. 1910
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Zlatoust ca. 1912
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Wooden Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord. The village of Pidma. 1909
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General view of the Church of the Transfiguration. Pidma. 1909
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View of the Church of the Transfiguration. Pidma. 1909
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School in the village of Pidma. 1909
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Icon of the Last Judgment. Pidma. 1909
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Altar cross and icon in the Church of the Transfiguration. Pidma. 1909
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Some of the Tsar's gifts. [Goritskii Monastery, Russian Empire]. 1909
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A stork in its nest, atop a building. Bukhara
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Woman wearing purdah, Samarkand
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Lilacs
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Turkmen camel driver
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Handcar riding along the Murmansk railroad
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Iconostasis and miraculous icon in the orthodox church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Smolensk
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Study of three generations, Zlatoust, Ural Mountains
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Windmills on the Siberian plain
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Supervisor of the floodgate on the Mariinskii Canal system
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Young Russian peasant girls in a rural area along the Sheksna River
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That same girl again
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The monastery of St. Nil on Stolobnyi Island in Lake Seliger in Tver province
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Tiled porcelain stove in the Prince's Palace in Rostov
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Portrait on the Karolitskhali River
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Detail of the "On the Karolitskhali River"
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Fabric merchant in Samarkand
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Melon vendor in Samarkand)
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Entrance to the emir's palace in Bukhara
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Shakh-i Zindeh Mosque in Samarkand
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Nomadic Kyrgyz family on the steppe
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Alim Khan (1880-1944), emir of Bukhara
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Textile mill interior
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Five Muslim inmates in a zindan (traditional Central Asian prison)
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Austrian prisoners of war in front of a barrack, Karelia
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Bashkir switchman on the Trans-Siberian
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Bashkir woman in national costume
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Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Mozhaisk
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Metal truss railroad bridge on Kama River, near Perm
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A locomotive on the railroad in the Ural Mountains
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Production of artistic casting in the Kasli Iron Works
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Storage facilities for hay in settlement of Viazovaia, in Ural Mountains
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Bakalskii mine in Ural Mountains
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Factory interior with electrical generators
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View of Tobolsk from the bell tower of the church of the Transfiguration
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The village of Kolchedan in Ural Mountains
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Log rafts on the Peter I Canal on Lake Ladoga
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Boats on the shore of Lake Onega
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Hay harvest in Russia
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Russian children in the north of European Russia
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Monks planting potatoes on Lake Seliger
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View of Suzdal from the Kamenka river, northeast of Moscow
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Construction of dam across Oka river
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Mountain gorge in Chechenya
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Dagestani Man, Dagestan
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Portrait of a Dagestani couple in Caucasus Mountains
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Tea harvest on east coast of Black Sea
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Cotton field in Sukhumi Botanical Garden
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View of the Likani Palace from the Kura River, Borjomi, Georgia
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Russian settlers to the Mugan steppe region
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Agricultural fields near Samarkand
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Jewish children with their teacher in Samarkand
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Russian steam locomotive, type Aa-76
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Cathedral in Dvinsk
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Man holding a waterpipe
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Logging on one of Russian rivers
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View of Lugano, Switzerland
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Orthodox shrine in Suzdal
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Vineyard
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Train station
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Young woman breaking flax in Perm province
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Crosier of St. Dimitri of Rostov
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Panorama of Smolensk
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Train station Farab, Turkmenistan
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Railway bridge across Shuya river, Karelia
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Borodino train station, Moscow oblast
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Astronomical observations in the Tian Shan
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View of Staritsa, Tver oblast
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A monastery in Torzhok, Tver oblast
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View of Torzhok, Tver oblast
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12th-century Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir
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12th-century St Demetrios Cathedral in Vladimir
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Field of poppies
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Stork nests on Tolchi-Bashi Madrasa in Bukhara
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View of Tbilisi from the Grounds of Saint David Church
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Church in Belozersk
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V Italīi (In Italy)
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Rzhev city on Volga river
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Church of Boris and Gleb in Suzdal
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A bureaucrat in Bukhara in 1910
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Train depot somewhere in Russia
Items in Saint Petersburg's Hermitage
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Etruscan pottery