Color photos of Tsarist Russia Bashny.Net

For 150 years before Instagrama born Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky - photographer who filmed the life of Russia in the color camera. These are pirogi.Sergey Mikhailovich was a pioneer of color photography by the Tsarist Russia. As well as a chemist, who studied at the very Mendeleev, inventor, publisher, educator and social activist.

Camera for color photography, which Prokudin-Gorsky took off - it was his invention, as well as the best in the world at that time sensitizer for developing photos and print transparencies. He photographed Chaliapin, Leo Tolstoy, meteor showers and solar eclipses, leaving an impressive legacy of world scale and significantly ahead of time. Now most of the heritage of Prokudin-Gorsky is stored in the US Library of Congress.

This year marks 150 years since the birth of the great photographer, and Website has chosen the best of his work.





















































































































































































































See also: the USSR in color
Images from the past
Photo project "Back to the Future»

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