Ancient Cross in the Dormition Convent, Staraya Ladoga
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Ancient Cross in the Dormition Convent, Staraya Ladoga — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga, Staraya Ladoga, Baltic Waterway).
Subjects: staraya ladoga, monasteries, volga-baltic waterway, crucifixes.
Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.
Original Russian caption: Starinnyĭ krest v Zhenskom Uspenskom monastyrie. [Staraia Ladoga, Rossiĭskaia imperiia].
