Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский

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Portrait, 1906

Self-portrait

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (in Russian: Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский), (1863-1944), Russian photographer who pioneered color photography.
Main article about him is found at English wikipedia: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.

The existing collection of colour pictures by Prokudin-Gorskii consists of 1,902 photographs, bought from his family by the Library of Congress in 1948. The whole collection of unrestored pictures can be seen at www.prokudin-gorsky.ru, although most of them currently only exist as thumbnails, while some of the 122 that were restored by Library of Congress for its 2000 exhibition can be seen at The Empire That Was Russia.
It is estimated that Prokudin-Gorskii took over 3,500 triple negatives but there are currently only two more known pictures preserved, both of them of his daughter Helene and taken as late as 1934. Those two are still owned by his family.

[edit] Colour pictures

Turkmen camel driver	Handcar riding along the Murmansk railroad	Solovetskii Monastery	Iconostasis and miraculous icon in the orthodox church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Smolensk
Study of three generations, Zlatoust, Ural Mountains	Windmills on the Siberian plain	Supervisor of the floodgate on the Mariinskii Canal system	Young Russian peasant girls in a ural area along the Sheksna River
The monastery of St. Nil on Stolobnyi Island in Lake Seliger in Tver province	Tiled porcelain stove in the Prince's Palace in Rostov	On the Karolitskhali River	Tea weighing station at the Chakva tea farm, Batumi, Georgia
Fabric merchant in Samarkand	Melon vendor in Samarkand)	Entrance to the emir's palace in Bukhara	Shakh-i Zindeh Mosque in Samarkand
Nomadic Kazakhs on the Steppe	Alim Khan (1880-1944), emir of Bukhara	Textile mill interior	Five inmates in a zindan (traditional Central Asian prison)
Austrian prisoners of war near a barrack, Karelia	Bashkir switchman on the Trans-Siberian	Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Mozhaisk	Metal truss railroad bridge on Kama River, near Perm
A locomotive on the railroad in the Ural Mountain	Production of artistic casting in the Kasli Iron Works	Storage facilities for hay in settlement of Viazovaia, in Ural Mountains	Bakalskii mine in Ural Mountains
Factory interior with electrical generators	View of Tobolsk from the bell tower of the church of the Transfiguration	The village of Kolchedan in Ural Mountains	Log rafts on the Peter I Canal on Lake Ladoga
Towpath bridge between lakes Ladoga and Onega	Boats on the shore of Lake Onega	Hay harvest in Russia	Russian children in the north of European Russia
Monks planting potatoes on Lake Seliger	View of Suzdal from the Kamenka river, northeast of Moscow	Construction of dam across Oka river	Mountain gorge in Chechenya
Uzbek woman at the entrance to a yurt, in Turkestan	Dagestani Man, Dagestan	Portrait of a Dagestani couple in Caucasus Mountains	Chinese foreman at the tea farm near Batumi (Georgia)
Tea harvest on east coast of Black Sea	Cotton field in Sukhumi Botanical Garden	Spa in Borjomi (now in Georgia)	View of the Likani Palace from the Kura River, Borjomi, Georgia
Russian settlers to the Mugan steppe region	View of Tbilisi, Georgia	Agricultural fields near Samarkand	Tajik man near Samarkand
Jewish children with their teacher in Samarkand	Russian steam locomotive, type Aa-76	Cathedral in Dvinsk	Man holding a waterpipe
Kremlin in Rostov	Logging on one of Russian rivers	View of Lugano, Switzerland	Orthodox shrine in Suzdal
Vineyard	Train station	Young woman breaking flax in Perm province	Crosier of St. Dimitri of Rostov
Cathedral in Smolensk	Panorama of Smolensk	Trinity Monastery in the city of Tiumen (high res)	Train station Farab, Turkmenistan
Railway bridge across Shuya river, Ivanovo oblast	Borodino train station, Moscow oblast	Astronomical observations in the Tian Shan	View of Staritsa, Tver oblast
A monastery in Torzhok, Tver oblast	View of Torzhok, Tver oblast	12th-century Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir	12th-century St Demetrios Cathedral in Vladimir
Field of poppies	Stork nests on Ulugh Beg Madrasa in Samarkand	View of Tbilisi from the Grounds of Saint David Church	Church in Belozersk
	Self portrait	V Italīi (In Italy)