Russian Empire in the Early 20th Century: Spectacular Color Photos Reveal a World Lost to History

#1 Self-portrait on the Karolitskhali River, 1910.

Prokudin-Gorskii in suit and hat, seated on a rock beside the Karolitskhali River, in the Caucasus Mountains near the seaport of Batumi on the eastern coast of the Black Sea.

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#2 Presumably Southern Ural, 1907

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#3 Presumably Ural, 1907

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#4 Sukhumi, Abkhazia

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#5 Kursk Governorate, presumably 1904

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#6 Unknown woman. Presumably Ekaterina, a daughter of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, 1908

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#7 A Georgian seller of tomatoes. Dagomys, 1912

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#8 Work at the Bakalskii mine, 1910

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#9 A fisherman. Ural, 1909

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#10 The city of Perm, 1909

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#11 Ural, 1912

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#12 A Bashkir. The village of Yakhino, 1910

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#13 The city of Rybinsk, 1909

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#14 Olonets Governorate, 1909

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#15 An engineer Nestor Puzyrevsky, the author of the project of a dam on the Oka River. Ryazan Governorate, 1912

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#16 Molding of an artistic casting (Kasli Iron Works), 1910. From the album “Views in the Ural Mountains, a survey of an industrial area, Russian Empire”.

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#17 Dagomys, 1912

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#18 A switch operator poses on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, near the town of Ust Katav on the Yuryuzan River in 1910.

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#19 Zlatoust, 1909

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#20 Tver Governorate, 1910

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#21 Bukhara bakery. 1907

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#22 An eighty-four years old supervisor of Chernigov floodgate with sixty-six years of service, 1909

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#23 Tver Governorate, 1910

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#24 Kostroma, 1911

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#25 Guard of the Murmansk railway and Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (on the right). 1916

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#26 Bukhara, 1907

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#27 1916

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#28 Laying concrete for the dam’s sluice, 1912.

Workers and supervisors pose for a photograph amid preparations for pouring cement for the sluice dam foundation across the Oka River near Beloomut.

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#29 Topornya, 1909

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#30 A Bashkir. 1910

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#31 Another Bashkir. 1910

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#32 Borjomi, 1912

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#33 Vytegra, 1909

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#34 Russian children sit on the side of a hill near a church and bell tower near White Lake, in Russia, 1909.

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#35 Ural, 1910

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#36 Caucasus, 1912

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#37 Leo Tolstoy. Yasnaya Polyana, 1908

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#38 Ural, 1910

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#39 Ural, 1910

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#40 Prisoners. Bukhara, 1907

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#41 Samarkand, 1911

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#42 Ryazan Governorate, 1912

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#43 Borjomi, 1912

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#44 Transcaspian Oblast, 1911

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#45 1909

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#46 Dagestanis, 1904

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#47 Bukhara, 1907

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#48 Karelia, 1916

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#49 Vytegra, 1909

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#50 The village of Myatusovo, 1909

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#51 A Georgian. 1912

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#52 A group of women in Dagestan, 1910

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#53 Samarkand, 1911

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#54 Transcaspian Oblast, 1911

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#55 Dmitry (on the left), the oldest son of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. Ural, 1912

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#56 Ostashkov, 1910

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#57 Baku Governorate, 1912

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#58 Paupers. Samarkand, 1911

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#59 1912

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#60 Peasant girls. Topornya, 1909

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#61 Samarkand, 1907

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#62 Presumably Ural

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#63 1909

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#64 Doctors. Samarkand

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#65 1916

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#66 A man with a camel loaded with packs, 1910s

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#67 Mother Taisia, Leushinsky monastery

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#68 The village of Krokhino, 1909

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#69 The village of Kuzminskoye, 1912

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#70 Presumably 1912

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#71 Borjomi, 1912

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#72 A group of men, 1915

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#73 A man with son and granddaughter, 1910

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#74 A mullah with his female students near the Artomelinskaia mosque in Artvin, 1910s

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#75 A woman standing on a carpet at the entrance to a yurt, dressed in traditional clothing and jewelry, 1910s

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#76 Church in Sterzh near the village of Novinka. St. Vladimir’s (Peter and Paul) church, 1910

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#77 Church of the Resurrection in the Grove, 1910

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#78 Clothing display, ca. 1910s

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#79 Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, Tashkent, ca. 1910s

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#80 Fabric merchant, ca. 1910s

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#81 General view of Katav-Ivanovskii Zavod, 1910

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#82 General view of the [Nikolaevskii] cathedral from southwest, 1911

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#83 Group of Jewish children with a teacher, ca. 1910s

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#84 Haying, near rest time, 1909

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#85 Melon vendor, ca. 1910s

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#86 Nikol’skaia [St. Nicholas] Church in Lavrovo village, Shlissel’burg county, St. Petersburg province, 1909

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#87 Nomadic Kirghiz, ca. 1910s

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#88 Ostrechiny. Study, 1909

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#89 Peasant girls, 1909

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#90 Portion of Shir-Dar minaret and its dome from Tillia-Kari, ca. 1910s

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#91 Railroad bridge over the Shuia River, 1915

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#92 Railroad construction on the Shadrinsk-Sinara railroad near the city of Shadrinsk, 1912

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#93 Settler’s family, Mugan, ca. 1910s

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#94 Spinning yarn in the village of Izvedovo, 1910

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#95 Two prisoners in shackles, ca. 1910s

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#96 View of Our Savior-Iakovlevskii Monastery, from the tower of the Rostov museum in the Kremlin, 1911

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#97 View of the monastery from Svetlitsa [Island, Saint Nil Stolbenskii Monastery, Lake Seliger], 1910

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#98 View of the Solovetskii Monastery from land, 1915

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#99 Village of Deviatiny and the Saint Boris dam, 1909

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#100 An Armenian woman in national costume poses for Prokudin-Gorskii on a hillside near Artvin (in present day Turkey), 1910.

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#101 A woman is seated in a calm spot on the Sim River, part of the Volga watershed in 1910.

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#102 A chapel sits on the site where the city of Belozersk was founded in ancient times, photographed in 1909.

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#103 View of Tiflis (Tblisi), Georgia from the grounds of Saint David Church, ca. 1910.

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#104 Isfandiyar Jurji Bahadur, Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm (Khiva, now a part of modern Uzbekistan), full-length portrait, seated outdoors, 1910.

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#105 A closer detailed view of Isfandiyar, Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm.

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#106 On the Sim River, a shepherd boy. Photo was taken in 1910, from the album “Views in the Ural Mountains, a survey of an industrial area, Russian Empire”.

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#107 Alternators made in Budapest, Hungary, in the power generating hall of a hydroelectric station in Iolotan (Eloten), Turkmenistan, on the Murghab River, 1910.

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#108 A Georgian woman poses for a photograph, 1910.

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#109 General view of Artvin (now in Turkey) from the small town of Svet, 1910.

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#110 Pinkhus Karlinskii, eighty-four years old with sixty-six years of service, 190

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#111 General view of the Nikolaevskii Cathedral from the southwest in Mozhaisk in 1911.

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#112 Sart woman in purdah in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, ca. 1910. Until the Russian revolution of 1917, “Sart” was the name for Uzbeks living in Kazakhstan

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#113 General view of the wharf at Mezhevaya Utka, 1912.

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#114 Peasants harvesting hay in 1909. From the album “Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russian Empire”.

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#115 Prokudin-Gorskii rides along on a handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway along Lake Onega near Petrozavodsk in 1910.

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#116 A water-carrier in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan), 1910.

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#117 Factory in Kyn, Russia, belonging to Count S.A. Stroganov, 1912.

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#118 Emir Seyyid Mir Mohammed Alim Khan, the Emir of Bukhara, seated holding a sword in Bukhara, (present-day Uzbekistan), 1910.

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#119 A boy leans on a wooden gatepost in 1910. From the album “Views in the Ural Mountains, a survey of an industrial area, Russian Empire

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#120 A metal truss bridge on stone piers, part of the Trans-Siberian Railway, crossing the Kama River near Perm, Ural Mountains Region, 1910.

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#121 Nomadic Kirghiz on the Golodnaia Steppe in present-day Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, 1910.

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#122 A man and woman pose in Dagestan, 1910.

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#123 A general view of Sukhumi, Abkhazia and its bay, seen sometime around 1910 from Cherniavskii Mountain.

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#124 A boy sits in the court of Tillia-Kari mosque in Samarkand, present-day Uzbekistan, 1910.

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