Colored photos of Russian Empire before 1917

[Gleb]

Didn't know where else to post this, so here we go. Hundreds of pics.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/kot_begemott/73148.html

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/prokc/21300/21314r.jpg

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/03900/03951r.jpg

[Gleb]

Second part

http://www.livejournal.com/users/kot_begemott/77823.html

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/03900/03961r.jpg

Railway engineers

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/prokc/20300/20341r.jpg

[Slavic Enforcer]

Nice pictures.

I wish Russia all the Best. Without her we other Slavs would be treated worse than now.

[Felix the Cat]

Yes, I've seen these before. The full catalog (http://www.prokudin-gorsky.ru/database.php3?first=0) is worth browsing. Thanks for posting

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Mikhailovich_Prokudin-Gorskii)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Sergei-Prokudin-Gorski-Larg.jpg

[Banat]

Nice pictures.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87-6040.jpg

[Ahknaton]

An ingenious photographical technique, and decades ahead of its time.

A similar colour-compositing technique was used on the Voyager space probes. The probes were fitted with black-and-white digital cameras with a rotating colour filter wheel mounted in front of the lens.

[Eisenhans]

There are some neat color WWII pictures at http://www.ww2incolor.com

[Gleb]

An ingenious photographical technique, and decades ahead of its time.

A similar colour-compositing technique was used on the Voyager space probes. The probes were fitted with black-and-white digital cameras with a rotating colour filter wheel mounted in front of the lens.

Yep, he could have been of a great value later for movie and photography industry, if not the revolution. I don't blame him for leaving the country, though.

[Gleb]

Nice pictures.

It's especially interesting to see the same place 100 years later -
http://www.oland.ru/lj/161.jpg

Some places didn't change at all, some changed dramatically, like this one

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/prokc/20600/20693r.jpg

http://www.e1.ru/fun/photo/view_pic.php/p/eb155dabee8499b70ad3b648a4528a09/view.pic

[daisy]

pretty white russia
where is all their muds?

[Excorcism]

Seriously, bravo to the man who found this website.

[Gleb]

Thanks!

So what do you guys think: did Soviet regime messed it all up for Russians or not? Would Russia be better now if communists never came to power?

[Sulla the Dictator]

Thanks!

So what do you guys think: did Soviet regime messed it all up for Russians or not? Would Russia be better now if communists never came to power?

The Czar's incompetance is responsible for the Soviet resgime.

Russia would have been better off if they had overthrown the Czar 50 years earlier.

[Keystone]

Great photos!

It was a different world. No automobiles.

[Donny the Punk]

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87-6040.jpg
This one looks like it's from a fairy-tale. What is it?