Polotsk: Monument to the War of 1812 by St. Nicholas…

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1912 • Belarus, Polatsk

Polotsk: Monument to the War of 1812 by St. Nicholas Cathedral, Belarus, Polatsk, 1912

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Polotsk: Monument to the War of 1812 by St. Nicholas Cathedral — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1912 (Belarus, Polatsk).

Subjects: monuments, polatsk, napoleonic wars, belarus.

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

Original Russian caption: Polotsk. Pamiatnik voĭny 1812 g. na ploshchadi okolo Nikolaevskago sobora.