Altar Cross and Icon in the Church of the Transfiguration,…

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1909 • Pid'Ma, Volga, Volga-Baltic Waterway

Altar Cross and Icon in the Church of the Transfiguration, Pidma, Pid'Ma, Volga, Volga-Baltic Waterway, 1909

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Altar Cross and Icon in the Church of the Transfiguration, Pidma — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Pid'Ma, Volga, Volga-Baltic Waterway).

Subjects: pid'ma, volga-baltic waterway, crosses, icons.

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

Original Russian caption: Zaprestolʹnyĭ krest i ikona v tserkvi Preobrazhenīia. [Pidʹma, Rossiĭskaia imperiia].