Early Russian color photographs

This Flickr set contains some truly stunning photos taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky as he traveled throughout Russia between 1909 and 1915 and captured what he saw in vivid color photography. It’s hard to believe that the photos — which are quite stunning — are nearly a century old. As one Flickr commenter said, they look like they’re HDR images.

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