Prokudin-Gorskii collection. Posing, in colour, for the Tsar

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The Russian Empire in colour, as it was a century ago, is back again visible to the public thanks to digital technology. The Caucasus as we had never seen it, portrayed by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, master of images, on a special mission for the last Romanoff. An OBC selection from the digital exhibition recently made available by the Library of Congress

 

The Armenian village of Artvin, seen from the Svet hill
(Library of Congress, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection )
An Armenian woman in traditional costume
(Library of Congress, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection )
Self portrait
(Library of Congress, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection )
A view of Sukhumi from the Černiavskij mountain
(Library of Congress, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection )
'Caterina (Ekaterinin)'s thermal spring' at the Borjomi spa, on the Caucasus hills in central Georgia
(Library of Congress, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection )
Cotton fields in the botanic garden of Sukhumi
(Library of Congress, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection )
Weighing and packaging tea
(Library of Congress, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection )
A Chinese foreman
(Library of Congress, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection )
Tea pickers
(Library of Congress, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection )
A Daghestani man and an elderly woman posing in traditional dress
(Library of Congress, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection )
Georgian woman
(Library of Congress, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection )
Daghestani women
(Library of Congress, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection )
Uomo daghestano
(Library of Congress,  Prokudin-Gorskii Collection )
Tbilisi
(Library of Congress, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection )
Russian settlers
Library of Congress, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection )