Image:Vytegra.jpg

24-domed Intercession church on the Vytegra River was built in wood in 1708 and burnt down to the ground by accident in 1963. It has not been restored so far.

This colour photograph by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was taken in 1911.

Public domain from the Library of Congress website .

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This is one of the earliest colour photographs in existence and was originally taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire. 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 colour projection.

More recently, the Library of Congress has scanned Prokudin-Gorskii's work and contracted with other firms to produce high-resolution colour images from the black and white scans. See the The Empire that was Russia exhibit.

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