Color Empire. Russia to shocks. Prokudin-Gorsky S.M.

Sergey Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky-a discoverer of color photography in Russia, a research scientist, a student of Dmitry Mendeleev. Almost for the century, his name was forgotten, and only at the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to modern technologies, did we have the opportunity to get acquainted with the collection of the master and the great inventor.

in the first decade of the 20th century, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky conceived and implemented several large-scale photo expeditions to and regions of the Russian Empire, traveling in a specially equipped railway carriage provided to it by the Ministry of Railways.

19OOs have been preserved, and we can see the color empire - Russia a hundred years ago - people of different nationalities, cities and the province, Culture and nature, monasteries and temples, crafts and crafts, large -scale construction and agriculture, industry and minerals.