Pictures of Russia Taken between 1909 to 1912 ~ Nightingale English Course

I want to show some fantastic pictures taken betweeen 1909 and 1912

Enjoy them!

Russia in color, a century ago

With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I

thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color

photographs taken between 1909 and 1912.

Molding of an artistic casting (Kasli Iron Works), 1910. From the album "Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire". Google Map, (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/L OC) #

General view of Artvin (now in Turkey) from the small town of Svet, ca. 1910. Google Map, (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC) #

In those years, 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, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be

recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.

The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to

believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken.

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. Google Map, (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC) #

Molding of an artistic casting (Kasli Iron Works), 1910. From the album "Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire". Google Map, (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC) #

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

A woman is seated in a calm spot on the Sim River, part of the Volga watershed in 1910. (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC) #

View of Tiflis (Tblisi), Georgia from the grounds of Saint David Church, ca. 1910. Google Map, (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC) #

A chapel sits on the site where the city of Belozersk was founded in ancient times, photographed in 1909. Google Map, (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC) #

Alternators made in Budapest, Hungary, in the power generating hall of a hydroelectric station in Iolotan (Eloten), Turkmenistan, on the Murghab River, ca. 1910.Google Map, (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC) #

A group of women in Dagestan, ca. 1910. Google Map, (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC) #

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. (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC) #