The Russian Empire at Work: Photographs by Sergey Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky
About the Photographer:
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (August 30, 1863 – September 27, 1944) was a Russian photographer and chemist.
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