Color photos of the Russian Empire showing how our country was 100 years ago
These impressive historical photographs show the life of people in the Russian Empire. Ordinary peasants, soldiers, officers, toilers, mothers, children and the elderly - this is the face of the era of the empire.
The pictures belong to a large collection of the famous Russian photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky. He is known for his pioneering work in the field of color photography and documenting the life of Russia in the early 20th century.
Presumably, the Southern Urals, between 1907 and 1909.
Presumably the Urals, 1907.
Sukhumi, Abkhazia.
Kursk province, 1904.
Georgian tomato seller, Dagomys, 1912.
At the iron ore mine, Ural, 1910.
Fisherman, Ural, 1909.
Bashkir, the village of Yakhino, 1910.
City of Rybinsk, 1909.
Engineer Nestor Puzyrevsky, author of the dam project on the Oka River. Ryazan province, 1912.
Dagomys, 1912.
Zlatoust, 1909.
Tver province, 1910.
Bukhara bakery, 1907.
Kostroma, 1911.
Protection of the Murmansk Railway and Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (right), 1916.
Topornia, 1909.
Borjomi, 1912
Caucasus, 1912
Leo Tolstoy, Yasnaya Polyana, 1908.
Watch the video: Rare Color Photographs of the Russian Empire 1904-1915 (May 2024).
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