Two Icons of Saints Peter and Paul from Peter I's Chapel,…

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1909 • Volga, Baltic Waterway, Volga-Baltic Waterway

Two Icons of Saints Peter and Paul from Peter I's Chapel, Petrovskoe, Volga, Baltic Waterway, Volga-Baltic Waterway, 1909

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Two Icons of Saints Peter and Paul from Peter I's Chapel, Petrovskoe — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga, Baltic Waterway, Volga-Baltic Waterway).

Subjects: peter, the apostle, saint, paul, icons.

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

Original Russian caption: Dvie ikony: Sv. Petra i Pavla. Iz chasovni Petra I v der. Petrovskoe, [Rossiĭskaia imperiia].