Twenty-plus years before the commercial advent of color photography, and just before the fall of the tsars, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled Russia to document the land for the tsar. And, in an amazing display of foresight, he realized color photography would one day be possible and so took all of his pictures through red, green, and blue filters. The Library of Congress has obtained his glass plates, scanned them, and digitally recombined them to yield color prints. The results are stunning.
Crazy Russians!
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