Cropped from an early color photograph from Russia, created by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire from 1909 to 1915. It was taken using three black-and-white exposures, with red, yellow and blue filters respectively, long before color photographic printing existed. The three resulting images were projected using color filters to create a color projection. More recently, the Library of Congress has scanned Prokudin-Gorskii's work and contracted with other firms to produce high-resolution color images from the black and white scans.
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2006-10-03T05:02:17Z Zantastik 3226x2802 (6983285 Bytes) View of [[Tbilisi]] ([[Georgia]]), in the early 1900s. Early color photograph from Russia, created by [[w:Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii|Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii]] as part of his work to document the Russia
2004-11-19T03:13:49Z Eloquence 800x695 (118876 Bytes) Early color photograph from Russia, created by [[w:Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii|Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii]] as part of his work to document the Russian Empire from 1909 to 1915. {{PD-old-auto-expired|deathyear=1944}} [[Category:Russia
{{Information |Description= The 18th century Armenian Church of the Red Gospel in Tbilisi in the early 1900s. Cropped from an early color photograph from Russia, created by [[w:Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorski