Excellent Collection : The Tsar's Photographer

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Great glimpses of Great Russioan History !!!!

The Tsar's Photographer and His Amazing Contribution to the Preservation of Russian History

100 photos, 100 years old or older, 100 years after Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky completed his historic quest to capture the beauty, diversity, and spiritual power of Tsarist Russia

Russian Chemist and Photographer Sergei Mikhaelovich Prokudin-Gorsky

Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer famous for his pioneering work in color photography in the early twentieth century.
In 1905 Gorsky set himself to the task of photographically documenting the Russian Empire with the primary aim of educating Russian schoolchildren on the diverse history and culture of the realm. After his famous color photograph of renowned author Leo Tolstoy in 1908, Gorsky received an invitation to present his work to Tsar Nicholas II and his family. So impressed was the Tsar that he commissioned Gorsky’s plan and provided him with funding and a specially-outfitted dark room rail car for his work.
From 1909 to 1915 Gorsky tirelessly traversed the Russian empire capturing thousands of shots of virtually every walk of Russian life. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the completion of his historic mission, we are publishing 100 of his best shots, giving a vivid glimpse into Tsarist Russia on the eve of the Communist Revolution.  
 

‘War and Peace’ author Leo Tolstoy - 1908
 
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84-year-old Pinkhus Karlinsky was the supervisor of the Chernigov floodgate over the course of 66 years - 1909
 

Dagestani couple - between 1909-1915
 

Assumption Cathedral in the Dalmatov Monastery - 1912
 

Assumption Cathedral in Tobolsk, rampart and part of fence - 1912
 

Austrian prisoners of war at a barracks near Kiappeselga - 1915
 

Young boy standing next to a gatepost - 1910
 

Bukharan bureaucrat - between 1909-1915
 

Cathedral in Shadrinsk - 1912
 

Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God at the Ipatevsky Monastery - 1910
 

Cathedral of the Transfigured Savior and Church of the Entry to Jerusalem in Torzhok - 1910
 

Foreman of the Chakva tea factory, Lau Dzhen Dzhau - between 1909-1915
 

Chapel from the time of Peter the Great near the Kivach Waterfall near the river Suna - 1915
 

Chapel where the city of Belozersk was founded in ancient times - 1909
 

Children sitting on a hill near a church and belltower in the countryside near White Lake in northern Russia - 1909
 

Church of the Resurrection of the Blood - between 1909-1915
 

Church of the Holy Mother of God in Tobolsk - 1912
 

Church of the Resurrection in the Grove in Kostroma - 1910
 

View of Dalmatov from the monastery belltower - 1912
 

Joining of the Irtysh and Tobol rivers - 1912
 

Courtyard of the Church of the Resurrection - between 1909-1915
 

Dagestani couple - between 1909-1915
 

Dmitrievsky Cathedral in Vladimir - 1911
 

Drying nets on Lake Seliger - 1910
 

Entrance to the Church of the Resurrection in Kostroma - 1910
 

Exit from the yard of the Church of St. George at the Riurik fortress Staraya Lagoda - 1909
 

Carpet merchant in Samarqand - between 1909-1915
 

Family working iron mines in the Bakaly Hills with shovels and horse-drawn carts - between 1909-1915
 

Farmers taking a rest from haying - 1909
 

Russian forest - 1910
 

Column fresco in the Church of St. John Chrystosom in Yaroslavl - 1911
 

Overview of Artvin from the small town of Svet - between 1909-1915
 

View of Liksansky Palace from the Kura River - between 1909-1915
 

View of Nikolaevsky Cathedral from the southwest - 1911
 

View of Shakh-i-Zendi Mosque in Samarkand - between 1909-1915
 

Georgian woman standing next to a tree - between 1909-1915
 

Girl with berries - 1909
 

Sergei Gorsky at the Karolitskhali River - 1912
 

Gospel belonging to the nun Varsanofiya, governess of the Tsarevna, in Trinity Monastery in Alexandrov - 1911
 

Group of Greek tea harvesters in Chavka - between 1909-1915
 

Hay storage at the Viazovaya Station - 1910
 

Iconostasis at a church in Borodino - 1911
 

Iconostasis at the Winter Church of the Fedorov Mother of God in Yaroslavl - 1911
 

Treasures in the vestry of the Ipatevsky Monastery in Kostroma - 1911
 

Borodino Museum - 1911
 

Jewish children with their teacher in Samarqand - between 1909-1915
 

Production shop for scabbards at the Zlatoust arms plant - 1910
 

Boat Yard in Kareshka - 1909
 

Large gathering of men in Central Asia, possibly for a game of Bayga - between 1909-1915
 

Workers laying concrete for a dam over the Oka River - 1912
 

Locomotive and coal car at a railroad yard - between 1909-1915
 

Horseman on the Golodnaya Steppe - between 1909-1915
 

Man sitting among bamboo trees - between 1909-1915
 

Man sitting on a log next to a hut for woodcutters - 1912
 

Melon vendor in Samarqand - between 1909-1915
 

Mills in Tobolsk Province - 1912
 

The last Emir of Bukhara, Mohammad Alim Khan - 1911
 

Artistic casting at Kasli Iron Works - between 1909-1915
 

Monks planting potatoes at Gethsemane Monastery - 1910
 

Mother of God-Odigitria in the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in Smolensk - 1912
 

Mullahs at a mosque in Aziziya Batum - between 1909-1915
 

Sergei Gorsky near the Kivach Waterfall on the Suna River - 1915
 

Hotel in Gagra with chauffeur in front - between 1909-1915
 

Night camp by a rock on the banks of the Chusovaya - 1912
 

Kyrgyz family on the steppe - between 1909-1915
 

Noviy Afon Monastery Ponds - between 1909-1915
 

An old man in Samarqand holding a brace of birds - between 1909-1915
 

Ordezh River near Siverskaya Station in Petersburg Province - between 1909-1915
 

Handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk Railway - between 1909-1915
 

Skuritskhali River - between 1909-1915
 

Guests standing near Catherine’s Spring at a spa at Borzhom - between 1909-1915
 

Rafts on Peter the Great Canal in Shlisselburg - 1909
 

Right bank of the Irtysh River at Tobolsk - 1912
 

Hauberk and helmet of St. Dalmat - 1912
 

Sart fields in Samarqand - between 1909-1915
 

Sergei Gorsky with two Cossaks in Murman - 1915
 

Settler’s family in village of Grafovka - between 1909-1915
 

Steam engine ‘Kompaund’ with Schmidt super heater - 1915
 

Stork in a nest in Bukhara - between 1909-1915
 

Tile stove in the prince’s chamber in Rosta Veliky - 1911
 

Tow rope bridge in the village of Lava - 1909
 

Trinity Cathedral in the city of Lalaturovsk - 1912
 

Trinity monastery in the city of Tumen - 1912
 

Tsar Aleksei Mikhaelovich’s gospel and Tsar Mikhael Feodorovich’s sacremental vessels in Trinity Monastery in Alexandrov - 1911
 

Tsarist gifts to the Goritsky Monastery - 1909
 

Two men and a woman standing outside the Zlatoust arms plant - 1910
 

Two men and two boys in Samarqand - between 1909-1915
 

Two men with a boat in Ostrechiny - 1909
 

Shir-Dar madrasa in Samarqand - between 1909-1915
 

Solovetsky Monastery - 1915
 

View of Tbilisi from St. David Church - between 1909-1915
 

View of Dalmatov Monastery from the Iset River - 1912
 

View of Tobolsk from Assumption Cathedral - 1912
 

Village of Kolchedan - 1912
 

Weighing station at the Chakva tea factory - between 1909-1915
 

Woman in Purdah standing next to a wooden door - between 1909-1915
 

Woman spinning yarn in the village of Izvedod - 1910
 

Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in the village of Pidma - 1909
 

Young woman in Malorossi (Ukraine) - between -1909-1915
 

Young women offer berries to visitors to their izbas - traditional wooden houses along the Sheksna River near Kirillov - 1909

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