Photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) made a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a special camera with red, green and blue filters, which allowed them to be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns that nearly show their true colour.
All images courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Armenian woman in national costume poses for Prokudin-Gorskii on a hillside near Artvin (in present day Turkey), circa 1910.
Prokudin-Gorskii Collection / Library of Congress
Emir Seyyid Mir Mohammed Alim Khan, the Emir of Bukhara, seated holding a sword in Bukhara, (present-day Uzbekistan), 1910.
Prokudin-Gorskii Collection / Library of Congress
Prokudin-Gorskii self portrait beside the Karolitskhali River, in the Caucasus Mountains near Batumi.
Prokudin-Gorskii Collection / Library of Congress
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