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- Around 1905, Prokudin-Gorsky envisioned and formulated a plan to use the emerging technological advances in color photography to document the Russian Empire systematically. Tsar Nicholas II granted him permits that allowed him to travel unmolested across restricted areas and instructed the empire's bureaucracy to cooperate with the photographer.
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Nov 25, 2017 · Around 1905, Prokudin-Gorsky envisioned and formulated a plan to use the emerging technological advances in color photography to document the Russian Empire systematically. Tsar Nicholas II granted him permits that allowed him to travel unmolested across restricted areas and instructed the empire's bureaucracy to cooperate with the photographer.
- Introduction
- Background: The Collection and Its Digitization
- Consequences of Digitizing The Collection
- Websites
- Documentary Films
- Dissertations
- Exhibitions and Books
- A Prokudin-Gorskii Museum
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
When I was a child, my mother used to tell me, with some regularity, “Be very careful what you wish for – you might actually get it, along with some surprises on the way....” In fact, this is exactly what has happened at the Library of Congress (LC) with the Prokudin-Gorskii collection of color photographs from the early 20th century since its digi...
Russian chemist and engineer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) developed a pioneering technology–one of the world’s first--for taking and displaying color photographs. Over the period of a decade, 1905-1915, in some cases after 1909 with funding and travel authorizations from tsar Nicholas II, he traveled throughout much of the Russi...
There was a natural time lag of a few years, but exhibits in Russia, particularly at the Shchusev Museum in Moscow and in provincial cities such as Orenburg, Petrozavodsk, Rostov-Velikii, Nizhnii Novgorod, and Ostashkov, made many Russians aware for the first time of the existence of full-color images of pre-revolutionary Russia, often of their own...
To go into detail about these, let me begin by noting and recommending the “Heritage of S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky” website8 and its blog, “Old Color.”9Founded and run by two young men in Moscow, Vasilii Driuchin and Viacheslav Ratnikov, this is the most scholarly and serious website dealing with Prokudin-Gorskii and his work. The website itself feature...
Between 2007 and 2013 at least five Russian documentary films were made about the Prokudin-Gorskii color photographs, and three of these were partially shot on site at LC and included interviews with the LC staff who had been involved with digitizing the collection and interpreting it to users. (The BBC had produced what was probably the first docu...
In addition to websites and documentaries, interest in Prokudin-Gorskii has generated several dissertations that we are aware of, in addition to Martynov’s documentary, used as the dissertation for his candidate’s degree at the Gerasimov Institute. One of the first was by Roman Andreevich Kotov at the Journalism Faculty of St. Petersburg State Univ...
The anniversary year of 2013, already referred to, saw a number of exhibits and books published about Prokudin-Gorskii and his work. The most significant Russian publication was by Prokudin-Gorskii veteran researcher Svetlana Petrovna Garanina (Moscow State University of Culture and the Arts, Khimki) – a luxuriously illustrated album with extensive...
Finally, in 2016 a “Museum of Prokudin-Gorskii” was established at the Romanovskaia School mentioned earlier. The founder and curator is Vasilii Driuchin, teacher of computer and information science and the teacher who led his students to produce the 2009 documentary referred to earlier26. The museum, being in a school, is open to visitors by appoi...
One of the most valuable, and intangible, consequences of LC’s making available on the Internet the entire Prokudin-Gorskii collection has been the establishment of close personal contacts among specialists, curators, experts in photography, descendants of Prokudin-Gorskii, and others interested in the collection both in Russia and the U.S., as wel...
An earlier version of this paper was given April 8, 2017 at the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Alexandria, VA. The author would like to thank colleagues Grant Harris and Angela Cannon for comments on earlier drafts, and Roy Robson (Pennsylvania State U. Abington) and Johanna Bockman (George Mason U.) for serving as chair and discussant, res...
By Catherine Putz. May 27, 2016. Kebab restaurant, Samarkand. Credit: Prokudin-Gorsky. In 1909, a chemist-turned-photography pioneer received the blessing of Russian Tsar Nicholas II to...
During the thirteen years of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky’s documentary journeys throughout the Russian Empire, his cultural vision unfolded with special clarity in the photographs that he took of medieval architecture in historical settlements northeast of Moscow—Vladimir, Suzdal, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Rostov, and Yaroslavl.
Jan 2, 2021 · How fortunate we are, therefore, that much of the pioneering color photography of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944), who documented the Russian Empire in its waning decades, has survived for...
early 1909. Nicholas II invites Prokudin-Gorskii to give a slide presentation to the Imperial court at Tsarskoye Selo. Prokudin-Gorskii receives official support to implement his plan to photographically document the Russian Empire.
Aug 14, 2021 · At the request of the Emperor of the Russian Empire, Nicholas II, from 1909 to 1915, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky traveled across the Russian Empire on a railroad car documenting the regions he passed through by producing original color photos.
