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Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii seated with two men in Murmansk. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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The church of Saint Nicholas the Wonder Worker in a work settlement called Nyrob. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A woman in peasant dress. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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Three peasant girls offer berries outside of their "izba," a traditional log house.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A view of the mountainside village of Artvin, in Turkey, which Russia occupied until 1917. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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An Armenian woman in holiday attire in Artvin.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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Two Catholic Armenian women from Artvin in traditional dress. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Belozersk, Russia. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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Andreĭ Petrov Kalganov, the foreman at a factory in the town of Zlatoust.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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The village of Kolchedan, in the Ural Mountains
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A Bashkir woman in traditional costume. The Bashkir are the indigenous people of the Ural Mountains. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A church in the town of Vetluga. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A cross in front of a monastery for women in Staraya Ladoga.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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Church of the Resurrection in Kostroma. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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The courtyard of the Church of the Resurrection.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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Georgian women seated in a park in holiday dress.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A man leans on a fence in the small village of Paltoga.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A group of Greek women harvesting tea in Chakva, Georgia. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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Women rake hay in a field outside of the Leushinskii Monastery.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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Peasants working in a hay field near what was then called the Mariinsk Canal System, which links the Volga river with the Baltic sea. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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Woodcutters on the Svir River.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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Portrait of an unknown woman. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A melon vendor in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A woman in Samarkand practicing Purdah, a Muslim tradition in which women seclude themselves from the rest of the community by living separately and covering themselves in a full-body veil.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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Two Jewish girls in Samarkand. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A group of Jewish children with their teacher in Samarkand.
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The Emir, a traditional Muslim chief, of Bukhara, Uzbekistan.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A home near the Sigovets rapids.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A self-portrait of Prokudin-Gorskii posing by the Suna River.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A view of the Kovzha River.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A family on the Svir River. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A guardhouse on the Volga-Baltic Waterway. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A monument to Emperor Peter the Great in the city of Lodeynoye Pole.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A view of the village of Naziya from the river. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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The town of Novaya Ladoga.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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Prokudin-Gorskii rides a railway handcar along with some workers on the Murmansk railway.Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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Pinkhus Karlinskii, 84, manning the floodgate in Chernigov, Ukraine, a post he held for 66 years. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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A nomadic Kyrgyz family in Uzbekistan.
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A Sunni Muslim man in the Dagestan region of Russia. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/Library of Congress
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