What did the Russian Empire look like between 1905 and 1915? Thanks the Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, we get some idea. Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) set out to record the empire’s landscape and its people in color:
![[Isfandiyar, Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm(Khiva), full-length portrait in uniform, seated on chair, outdoors]](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/russia-in-colour-17.jpg)
[Isfandiyar, Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm(Khiva), full-length portrait in uniform, seated on chair, outdoors]
Some articles from the Staritsa Monastery sacristy: Saint Dionysius’ mitre, Saint Dionysius’ censer and cross. Patriarch Iov’s cross
Emir of Bukhara. Bukhara
Sart woman. Samarkand
Armenian women (Catholics) in customary dress.
Peasant woman breaking flax. Perm Province
Bashkir woman in a folk costume
![Austrian prisoners of war near a barrack, [near Kiappeselga]](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/russia-in-colour-6.jpg)
Austrian prisoners of war near a barrack, [near Kiappeselga]
On the handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway
Woodcutters on the Svir River.
hree young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov.
![Pinkhus Karlinskii. Eighty-four years [old]. Sixty-six years of service. Supervisor of Chernigov floodgate.](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/russia-in-colour.jpg)
Pinkhus Karlinskii. Eighty-four years [old]. Sixty-six years of service. Supervisor of Chernigov floodgate.
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