Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
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Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in colour photography and his effort to document early 20th-century Russia.
Prokudin-Gorskii "on the Karolitskhali River" in 1912
Prokudin-Gorsky in 1906
Lithograph print of Leo Tolstoy in front of Prokudin-Gorsky's camera in Yasnaya Polyana, 1908
Crop from Alleia Hamerops showing the red, green and blue color channels as well as the composite image
Dagestan
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Dagestan, officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea. It is located north of the Greater Caucasus, and is a pa
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
…testbed for computer scientists. Gallery Some of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky's photographs, digitally remastered, made available by the Library of Congress: Dagestani Sunni Muslim, 1904 Greek women and children harvesting tea in Chakvi, Georgia, circa 1905–1915 Jewish children with their teacher in Samarkand, c…
The Sulak river flowing through the Sulak Canyon
Kakhib, one of many abandoned auls in Dagestan
Abandoned Lezgin village of Grar