Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944) was a Russian photographer, chemist (a student of Dmitri Mendeleev), inventor, publisher, teacher, and public figure. He made significant contributions to the development of photography and cinematography. He was a pioneer of color photography in Russia and the creator of the “Collection of Landmarks of the Russian Empire.”

Between 1909 and 1916, Prokudin-Gorsky traveled across a significant portion of the Russian Empire, photographing old churches, monasteries, factories, towns, villages, and a variety of everyday scenes.

The town of Zubtsov (Tver Oblast) on the Volga River (1910).

the last years of the Russian Empire

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