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Russian Churches, now and then

September 10th, 2006 by andy

Via English-Russia, a series of fascinating pictures of Russian churches, the first taken in 1910, the second just a couple of years ago:

Nilov Hermitage 1906 Nilov Hermitage 21st century

The first picture was taken by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer to the Russian Tsar, who developed a revolutionary technique for taking colour pictures.More of his amazing pictures, documenting life in late Tsarist Russia can be found at the Library of Congress website - The Empire that was Russia.


1 Response to “Russian Churches, now and then”

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    Carly Says

    What is the name of the church on the right?? Thank you

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