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Colour Images of the Russian Empire

15/03/2017 GMT

The Russian Empire in Colour

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Photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii took the first colour photographs of Russia

A hundred years ago, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii travelled around Russia, taking the first colour photographs of a world that was about to be swept away by the revolution

A hundred years ago, photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii travelled around the Russian Empire taking the first colour photographs of a world that was about to be swept away by the Bolshevik Revolution. Using a unique method of colour photography, which he had developed, he managed to capture images previously never seen. Dina Newman speaks to Michel Soussaline, Prokudin-Gorskii's grandson. Photo: Peasant Girls, 1909. Credit: Library of Congress; Famille Procoudine-Gorsky.

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