Title

Village of Paltoga [Russian Empire], 1909. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.

Caption

Village of Paltoga [Russian Empire], 1909. Log cabin under construction in foreground, Vologda Oblast, Russia. Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944) was a pioneer in colour photography which he used to document early 20th-century Russia and her empire, including the vanishing way of life of tribal peoples along the Silk Route in Central Asia. In a railway-carriage darkroom provided by Czar Nicholas II, Prokudin-Gorsky used the three-colour photography process to record traditional costumes and occupations, churches and mosques - many now Unesco World Heritage sites - as well as modernisation in agriculture, industry and transport.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A06_145

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License type

Rights managed

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56,4Mb (2,6Mb) / 16,5in x 13,3in / 4960 x 3976 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors woods woodland countryside building buildings wood log logs library timber house houses religious architecture country religion construction site church traditional color Christianity cabin rustic lumber building site location century Russia Russian concept typical log cabin Library of Congress log cabins Colour 1900s 20th century rural rural life TGN outside photograph landscape Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky Prokudin-Gorsky Sergey Mikhaylovich Regionalism Congressional Library Heritage Art Glass negatives still image Color separation negatives Meeting of Frontiers Prokudin-Gorsky Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky Sergey Vologda Oblast