Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky: Subjects & Themes
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Color Separation Negatives
1091 worksVolga River Region
Towns, monasteries and riverside life of the upper Volga, from its source near Lake Peno to Kostroma, Yaroslavl and Rostov, photographed in 1910-1911.
292 worksUral Mountains Region
Ironworks, mining settlements, rock formations and Bashkir villages of the Urals, from Perm and Ekaterinburg to Zlatoust and the Chusovaya River.
234 worksVolga-Baltic Waterway
The Mariinsky canal system linking the Volga to the Baltic, recorded lock by lock on the 1909 trip: dams, dredgers, canal villages and monasteries.
170 worksRivers
162 worksChurches
Orthodox churches of every kind, from wooden village churches in the north to frescoed stone churches in Yaroslavl, Rostov and Suzdal.
159 worksCities & Towns
91 worksRostov
73 worksKarelia
Waterfalls, lakes, railway works and settlements of Karelia, photographed in 1915 along the new Murmansk Railway.
71 worksPortrait Photographs
Portraits of workers, peasants, officials, clergy and rulers, from waterway supervisors to the Emir of Bukhara.
58 worksMonasteries
Monasteries and convents across the empire, including Kirillo-Belozersky, Solovetsky, the Nilov Monastery on Lake Seliger and the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma.
54 worksReligious Articles
54 worksCityscape Photographs
52 worksIcons
Icons, wall paintings and sacred images photographed in churches and monastery sacristies, often their only colour record.
49 worksCathedrals
47 worksCliffs
45 worksCaucasus
The Black Sea coast and mountains of the Caucasus: Batumi, the Chakva tea plantations, Dagestan and the people of the region.
44 worksVillages
44 worksSiberia
Western Siberian towns and rivers on the Kama-Tobol route, including Tobolsk, Tyumen and Dalmatovo.
41 worksWestern
41 worksOnion Domes
The bulbous domes that crown Russian churches, captured in some of the earliest colour photographs of Russian architecture.
40 worksChusovaia River
The great cliffs and rock faces along the Chusovaya River in the Urals, photographed on the 1912 river journey.
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