Two Icons in the Church of Elijah the Prophet, Belozersk

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1909 • Volga-Baltic Waterway, Belozersk, Volga

Two Icons in the Church of Elijah the Prophet, Belozersk, Volga-Baltic Waterway, Belozersk, Volga, 1909

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Two Icons in the Church of Elijah the Prophet, Belozersk — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga-Baltic Waterway, Belozersk, Volga).

Subjects: volga-baltic waterway, icons, belozersk (vologodskaia oblast).

Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.

Original Russian caption: Dvie ikony v tserkvi Ilʹi Proroka. [Belozersk, Rossiĭskaia imperiia].