Cups Used by Empress Catherine the Great, Spaso-Yakovlevsky…
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Cups Used by Empress Catherine the Great, Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery near Rostov — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1911 (Rostov, Volga River Region).
Subjects: volga river region, associated objects, ii, rostov, empress of russia.
Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.
Original Russian caption: Kubki, iz kotorykh pila Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaia, posietivshaia monastyrʹ. Bliz Rostova Velikago. Spaso-IAkovlevskīĭ monastyrʹ.