Shroud Given by Emperor Alexander I, Embroidered by Greek…
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Shroud Given by Emperor Alexander I, Embroidered by Greek Women, Goritsy Convent — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga, Baltic Waterway, Volga-Baltic Waterway).
Subjects: associated objects, shrouds, i, emperor of russia, volga-baltic waterway.
Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.
Original Russian caption: Plashchanitsa, podarennaia Imperatorom Aleksandrom I. Vyshita grechankami. [Goritskiĭ monastyrʹ, Rossiĭskaia imperiia].
