Europe through the eyes of Prokudin-Gorsky
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Europe through the eyes of Prokudin-Gorsky
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In the early 20th century, the pioneer of Russian color photography S.M. Prokudin-Gorsky mastered a unique method that allowed him to capture views of the era in natural colors without color emulsions.
With his camera he traveled through the system of locks from the interior of Finland to the dacha suburbs of St. Petersburg. He spent a spring day on the shores of Lake Lugano in Switzerland, visited Venice, Milan, the ruins of Pompeii, the shores of Lake Garda and the island of Capri. In the south of France, his camera captured Russian street names in the town of Villefranche-sur-Mer. Later he headed to Denmark, where at the personal request of Empress Maria Feodorovna he took several shots of palaces and parks associated with the beginnings of her love affair with the future Emperor Alexander III.
The last stop was the part of Turkey, part of the Russian Empire, which was soon to become the stage for a great tragedy in 1915.
With his camera he traveled through the system of locks from the interior of Finland to the dacha suburbs of St. Petersburg. He spent a spring day on the shores of Lake Lugano in Switzerland, visited Venice, Milan, the ruins of Pompeii, the shores of Lake Garda and the island of Capri. In the south of France, his camera captured Russian street names in the town of Villefranche-sur-Mer. Later he headed to Denmark, where at the personal request of Empress Maria Feodorovna he took several shots of palaces and parks associated with the beginnings of her love affair with the future Emperor Alexander III.
The last stop was the part of Turkey, part of the Russian Empire, which was soon to become the stage for a great tragedy in 1915.
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