"The Empire that Was Russia" in color.

[Clark Gilbert]

So, I was looking around some of the digital camera places I visit every now and then and I stumbled across this in the forums of one of them.

Bascially, they are color photos from the early 1900s of the Russian Empire. The description says they were taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii using some new method of photography. Below are some links to the photographs and it helps to read the description on the side of the first link.

Russian Empire
The Empire That Was Russia

Just think if this had not been around the eve of World War I and if he hadn't gone into exile we might be looking at history in a different perspecitive today.

I thought I'de post this little section if you don't read the website.

Please note that these images are NOT colorized black and white photographs. They were actually taken in colour about hundred years ago!

Because of many years of negligent storing, most of the negatives are in very poor condition, and it takes me hours of scrupulous work to restore their original brilliance. It is just the beginning of the work and I am going to continue. Hundreds of unique colour images of the past are still waiting to be returned back to life.

All the images are about 3000 X 3000 pixels (9-10 Megapixels) and can be printed in various sizes from postcard to poster with perfect quality.