Vintage Color Photography– #1
Успение Богородицы в Девятины (200 лет). [Русская империя]
Translation: Assumption of the Mother of God Church in Deviatiny
(200 years old). [Russian Empire]
Library of Congress image.
(Летом) Церковь Матери Божией Федоров. Ярославль
Translation: (Summer) Church of the Fedorov Mother of God. Yaroslavl
Library of Congress image.
Церковь Иоанна Предтечи на Малышевой горе. Старая Ладога. [Русская империя]
Church of Saint John the Precursor on Malyshevaia hill. Staraia Ladoga. [Russian Empire]
Library of Congress image.
All three images are from the Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection at the Library of Congress.
Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in color photography of early 20th-century Russia.