The faces of the empire. Prokudin-Gorursky S.M., Galaganova L.

p. M. Prokudin-Gorsky-one of the pioneers of color photography, which created in 1909-1916 by order of Nicholas II a unique collection of pictures, which can be called the visual encyclopedia of the Russian Empire. The photographer managed to capture the world on the eve of his crash; People who did not know that their life would change soon - forever and irreparable. Not remarkable residents of cities and villages. Perhaps this was exactly what our ancestors were: they wore bright sundresses, like Russian peasants, or variegated robes, like men on the streets of Samarkand, looked at the photographer with wide open eyes, like peasant children in a clear meadow, or ungbitiously squinted, like sarts in white chalmas. All these people will be discussed in this book. The fate of the unsuccessful Bukhara emir, the great Russian writer, a monk from a distant monastery and workers from the weapons factory by an invisible thread were connected by a single person with a camera-S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky.