Convent in Cherdyn, with the Oldest Church in the Region

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1910 • Cherdyn, Ural Mountains Region

Convent in Cherdyn, with the Oldest Church in the Region, Cherdyn, Ural Mountains Region, 1910

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Convent in Cherdyn, with the Oldest Church in the Region — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1910 (Cherdyn, Ural Mountains Region).

Subjects: ural mountains region, monasteries, cherdyn, onion domes.

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

Original Russian caption: Zhenskīĭ monastyrʹ v Cherdyni (drevnieĭshaia tserkovʹ v kraie).