The sunset is just one of thousands of color photographs that Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii made between 1905 and 1915. With funding from Czar Nicholas II, he set out to document the ...

The Russian Empire of Czar Nicholas II.” As Gestalten publisher Robert Klanten told “Time” magazine: “It is as rare as hen’s teeth to have color photography from that era...Most people ...

(Paul Buckowski/Times Union) Watervliet's Father Peter Olsen visited The mine pit where the remains of Tsar Nicholas II and some ... the executions comes from eye witness accounts, meaning the ...

Under Czar Nicholas ... In 1909, Nicholas authorized Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii to document his empire using a new technique called additive color. Over a period of about six years ...