print email comment close The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated URL: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ Description: An exhibit of a photographic survey of eleven regions of the Russian Empire, taken in 1909-1912 and again in 1915 by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944). It is divided into sections that include Architecture , Ethnic Diversity , Transportation , and People at Work . There is also an explanation of digichromatography, the process by which color images were made from the photographer's glass negatives. From the Library of Congress. Publisher: United States. Library of Congress Library of Congress Subject Headings: Color photography Russia Russia -- Photographs LII Database Information: Record 2831 created by Dana Lubow on 05/12/2001 Last modification on 12/27/2002 Published: 05/12/2001   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2831