The Russian Empire - Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

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THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE 1905 - 1915 PHOTOGRAPHER PROKUDIN-GORSKII

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The Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection features colour photographic surveys of the vast Russian Empire made between ca. 1905 and 1915. Frequent subjects among the 2,607 distinct images include people, religious architecture, historic sites, industry and agriculture, public works construction, scenes along water and railway transportation routes, and views of villages and cities. An active photographer and scientist, Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook most of his ambitious colour documentary project from 1909 to 1915. The Library of Congress purchased the collection from the photographer's sons in 1948. THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE

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An Armenian woman in national costume poses for Prokudin-Gorskii on a hillside near Artvin (in present day Turkey), circa 1910.

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Self-portrait on the Karolitskhali River, ca. 1910. Prokudin-Gorskii in suit and hat, seated on rock beside the Karolitskhali River, in the Caucasus Mountains near the seaport of Batumi on the eastern coast of the Black Sea

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A woman is seated in a calm spot on the Sim River, part of the Volga watershed in 1910

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A chapel sits on the site where the city of Belozersk was founded in ancient times, photographed in 1909

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View of Tiflis (Tblisi), Georgia from the grounds of Saint David Church, ca. 1910.

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Isfandiyar Jurji Bahadur, Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm (Khiva, now a part of modern Uzbekistan), full-length portrait, seated outdoors, ca. 1910

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A closer detail view of Isfandiyar, Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm. This photo would have been taken near the start of his reign in 1910, when he was 39 years old. He ruled Khorezm until his death in 1918

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On the Sim River, a shepherd boy. Photo taken in 1910, from the album "Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire".

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A Georgian woman poses for a photograph, ca. 1910

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A group of women in Dagestan, ca. 1910

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General view of Artvin (now in Turkey) from the small town of Svet, ca. 1910

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Pinkhus Karlinskii, eighty-four years old with sixty-six years of service. Supervisor of Chernigov floodgate, part of the Mariinskii Canal system. Photo taken in 1909.

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General view of the Nikolaevskii Cathedral from southwest in Mozhaisk in 1911

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A group of Jewish children with a teacher in Samarkand, (in modern Uzbekistan), ca. 1910

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A switch operator poses on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, near the town of Ust Katav on the Yuryuzan River in 1910

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Laying concrete for the dam's sluice, 1912. Workers and supervisors pose for a photograph amid preparations for pouring cement for sluice dam foundation across the Oka River near Beloomut

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Sart woman in purdah in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, ca. 1910. Until the Russian revolution of 1915, "Sart" was the name for Uzbeks living in Kazakhstan

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General view of the wharf at Mezhevaya Utka, 1912.

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Peasants harvesting hay in 1909. From the album "Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russian Empire".

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Prokudin-Gorskii rides along on a handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway along Lake Onega near Petrozavodsk in 1910

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A water-carrier in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan), ca. 1910

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Factory in Kyn, Russia, belonging to Count S.A. Stroganov, 1912.

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Russian children sit on the side of a hill near a church and bell tower near White Lake, in Russia, 1909

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Emir Seyyid Mir Mohammed Alim Khan, the Emir of Bukhara, seated holding a sword in Bukhara, (present-day Uzbekistan), ca. 1910

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A boy leans on a wooden gatepost in 1910. From the album "Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire".

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Nomadic Kirghiz on the Golodnaia Steppe in present-day Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, ca. 1910

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A man and woman pose in Dagestan, ca. 1910

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A boy sits in the court of Tillia-Kari mosque in Samarkand, present-day Uzbekistan, ca. 1910

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A general view of Sukhumi, Abkhazia and its bay, seen sometime around 1910 from Cherniavskii Mountain

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