Entrance to the Nilov Monastery Enclosure, Lake Seliger

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1910 • Volga River Region, Seliger, Lake

Entrance to the Nilov Monastery Enclosure, Lake Seliger, Volga River Region, Seliger, Lake, 1910

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Entrance to the Nilov Monastery Enclosure, Lake Seliger — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1910 (Volga River Region, Seliger, Lake).

Subjects: volga river region, monasteries, domes, seliger, lake.

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

Original Russian caption: Vkhod v ogradu Nilovoĭ pustyni. [Monastyria Pr. Nila Stolbenskago, ozero Seliger].