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Life Under The Tsar

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September 15, 2009

At the start of the 20th century, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky won the support of Tsar Nicholas II to conduct an ambitious photographic survey of the Russian Empire. Between 1907 and 1915, Prokudin-Gorsky traveled widely in a railroad car equipped with a darkroom, recording the vast diversity of Russia's culture.

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by: Tobias from: Sweden

September 15, 2009 15:22

Nice. But shouldn't they be black and white?

by: Tui from: London

September 15, 2009 19:45

Hi Tobias, I thought you might be right but check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography

It looks like this is some of the earliest colour photography. Stunning.

by: David from: Spain

September 16, 2009 07:00

Telling comment. Are you Swedish, or just an average US citizen posing as a Swede?

by: Tobias from: Sweden

September 16, 2009 18:07

Thanks Tui. David, I am half-Finnish, perhaps that will excuse my ignorance.

by: Konstantin from: Los Angeles

September 21, 2009 05:49

Why would an average US Citizen posing as a Swede?
However, it would make sense to ask whether David did smelled a non-Russian "Duh" (spirit, Russ.) in a half-Finnish, while being himself a pseudo-mentoring Russian "from Spain"...

My question is:
Why nowbody smell Russian expansionist propaganda in a Zarist picture that looks like a pseudo-Caucasian Quisling in turban and with Russian medals?
Making Russian Nikolashka's claim on the whole Caucasus, including Georgia, and beyond?

Konstantin.