General View of Northern Smolensk from the Bell Tower of…

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1912 • Smolensk

General View of Northern Smolensk from the Bell Tower of the…, 1912

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General View of Northern Smolensk from the Bell Tower of the Dormition Cathedral — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1912.

Subjects: cathedrals, cities & towns, smolensk, cityscape photographs.

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

Original Russian caption: Obshchīĭ vid sievernoĭ chasti s kolokolʹni Uspenskago sobora. g. Smolensk.