Amazing color photos from Russian Empire taken 100 years ago

Amazing color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912 by the photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) which undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II.

This great photographer used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using blue, green and red filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.

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