Folding Icon, Orsha Ascension Monastery near Tver

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1910 • Russia (Federation), Volga River Region

Folding Icon, Orsha Ascension Monastery near Tver, Russia (Federation), Volga River Region, 1910

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Folding Icon, Orsha Ascension Monastery near Tver — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1910 (Russia (Federation), Volga River Region).

Subjects: volga river region, icons, metalwork.

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

Original Russian caption: Skladenʹ. Orshskīĭ Voznesenskīĭ monastyrʹ v 22 verstakh ot Tveri.