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1. Photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-
Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a
photographic survey of the Russian Empire
with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used
a specialized camera to capture three black
and white images in fairly quick succession
and then using red, green and blue filters
recombined the images to produce color
photos that were ahead of there time. The
high quality of Gorskii’s pics make it difficult
for viewers to believe that they are looking
100 years back in time

2. The Russian Empire was a state that
existed from 1721 until the Russian
Revolution in 1917. It was the second
largest contiguous empire in world
history, surpassed only by the Mongol
Empire, the third largest empire the
British Empire. At one point in 1866, it
stretched from eastern Europe, across
Asia, and into North America. By the
end of the 19th century the size of the
empire was about (8,600,000 sq mi) or
almost 1/6 of the Earth's landmass.

3. Self-portrait, Prokudin-Gorskii seated on rock beside the Karolitskhali River
in the Caucasus Mountains near the eastern coast of the Black Sea 1915

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

5. Volga-Baltic Waterway, Russia 1909

6. Washing brown iron ore at the Shilovskii near the village of Makarovo, Russia 1909

7. Mills in Ialutorovsk district of Tobolsk Province Siberia, Russia 1910

8. A woman is seated on the Sim River, part of the Volga watershed in 1910

9. A switch operator poses on the Trans-Siberian Railroad near the town of Ust Katav, Russia 1910

10. Gates at the Cathedral of the Transfiguration in the city of Tver, Russia 1910

11. Hut in the forest for woodcutters, Ural mountain region, Russia 1908

12. Turkmen man posing with camel loaded with sacks, probably of grain or cotton, Central Asia 1907

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

14. Prokudin-Gorskii (right front) rides along on a handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk
railway along Lake Onega in 1910

15. Trinity Cathedral in the city of Ialutorovsk, Siberia, Russia 1910

16. View of the Solovetskii monastery Solovetski, Russia 1912

17. Prokudin-Gorskii at a night camp on the bank of the Chusovaia River, Russia 1912

18. Isfandiyar Jurji Bahadur, Khan of the Russian protectorate of
Khorezm (Khiva, now a part of modern Uzbekistan) 1910

20. Trans-Siberian Railway crossing the Kama River near Perm, Ural Mountains Region, Russia 1910.

21. Church of the Exaltation of the Cross. Ostashkov, Russia 1908

22. Finland was part of the Russian
Empire until 1917
Near the small town of Iustilia, Finland on the Saimaa Canal 1907

23. View of Suzdal along the Kamenka River, Russia 1910

24. Emir Seyyid Mir Mohammed Alim Khan, the Emir of Bukhara (present-day Uzbekistan) 1910

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

26. A group of women in Dagestan, Russia 1910

27. Peasants harvesting hay along the Mariinskii Canal, Russian Empire 1909

28. Site of a rescue station, Onega Lake, Russian Empire 1909

29. Shroud with image of the the Venerable Evfrosiniia, Evfrosiniia Monastery, Suzdal, Russia 1910

30. A man and woman pose in Dagestan, Russia 1910

31. Nikolaevskii Cathedral in the city of Mozhaisk, Russia 1911

32. Kyn, Russia 1912

33. Dalmatov Monastery, Siberia Russia 1909

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

35. Sart woman in purdah in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 1910

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

37. Spinning yarn in the village of Izvedovo, Russia 1907

38. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokudin-Gorskii