Color photograph which clearly records Russian color 100 years ago

Before,Color photograph taken about 100 years agoA large amount of full-color photographs taken in Russia which we took up in the article called 100 years ago was introduced.

This photograph was taken when photographers of the Russian Empire eraSergei · Prokudin = Gorsky(1863 to 1944). There is an incredibly colorful scenery contained in it that it was taken before the color film was invented.

Details are as below. One person nestling in the forestArmeniansA woman. It is considered to have been taken around 1910. It is reproduced to the velvet texture of national costume and I do not think that it was photographed very 100 years ago.


Jewish children and Samarkand teachers. Were there many children who were taught studying like this at that time?


A woman who is correctly in position to take pictures. The appearance of the color of the scenery around the woman's right side is peculiar, it even makes me feel like the world is not the world.


It is the cathedral of Nikolaevskii reflected in the center. It is quite different from the surrounding buildings, bright red walls well shine in the blue sky.


Men who work at the steelworks.


A woman is standing beside a gentle river.


Although the way of color slightly differs from the current color photograph, it is a combination of images taken through three color filters of red, green and blue, created by Mr. Sergei in the era when there is no color film yet, to combine full color Because I am using the technique of reproducing.


It seems that the way the colors are slightly warmer is giving off a nostalgic atmosphere.


His Excellency Ishandiyar Jurji of Khan Country, which was then protected by the Russian Empire. It is a portrait of a so-called great man.


If it is a photo of up, you can feel the texture and skin color of the hat clearer. This picture is to say that it was taken in 1910 when he began to rule.


A boy sitting in the field. It is a fantastic scenery like one page in the story.


Also up the huge facility of the hydraulic power plant in Turkmenistan. Sergei, the last emperor of the Russian EmpireNikolai IIIt seems that not only landscapes and portrait photographs but also such structures were recorded, either because they were taking photographs with the support of.


Even in Russia 100 years ago, how to take a group photo is smiling somewhere with the same feeling as in Japan.


Residential area towering on the mountains.


A portrait of Mr. Pinkhus Karlinskii, an administrator of the flood gate who has been working for 66 years. The rainbow color of the water surface which is thought to have been created by the condition of the filter and that dignity (kan ruku) is a mismatch, it gives a rather strong impression rather.


Sitting by the river is Sergei · Prokujin-Gorski who took these photos.


Where he was then, even if you share it even if you look at Google map on the mountain! Feeling like. The pictures I have introduced so far were taken in peaceful mountainous areas, but when I saw the beautiful scenery 100 years ago,Wildfires occurring in various parts of RussiaI can not help wishing that it will not spread further.

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Other photos can be seen from the link below.
Russia in color, a century ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Also, Sergei · Prokudin = Gorsky's work has been introduced in various places, and many pictures are also posted on the following link.
Авторские галереи - Прокудин - Горский Сергей Михайлович
Prokudin-Gorsky Color Database
Prokudin-Gorskii Images