Some of the Tsars' Gifts, Goritsy Convent
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Some of the Tsars' Gifts, Goritsy Convent — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga, Baltic Waterway, Volga-Baltic Waterway).
Subjects: religious articles, chalices, still life photographs, volga-baltic waterway, metalwork.
Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.
Original Russian caption: Niekotorye TSarskīe podarki. [Goritskiĭ monastyrʹ, Rossiĭskaia imperiia].
