More of Prokudin-Gorskii's color photographs of Russia

It was back in June 2012 that I first wrote about the amazing work of Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in the early 20th century. His collection was subsequently purchased by the United States Library of Congress and is available in the public domain. The Library's collection is organized online at "The Empire That Was Russia."

Here are some more wonderful images from those vast archives (most of them cropped). I hope this encourages you to go check them out for yourself.

Above: Georgian woman seated in the shade of a tree. Taken sometime between 1905 and 1915. From the album "Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Russian Empire."

Above: Armenian woman in national costume, Artvin. Taken sometime between 1905 and 1915. From the album "Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Russian Empire."

Above: Guard dogs. Taken in 1910. From the album "Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire."

Above: Cows in a field. Taken in 1910. From the album "Views along the upper Volga River, from its source in the Valdai Hills to Kalyazin, Russian Empire."

Above: At the Saliuktin mines. On the outskirts of Samarkand. (Men with packtrain of camels in snow-covered mountains.) Taken sometime between 1905 and 1915. From the album "Views in Central Asia, Russian Empire."

Above: Two carved wooden statues of bearded men with a haloes above their heads, one holds a set of keys, the other a book. (Title devised by Library of Congress staff.) Taken sometime between 1905 and 1915.

Above: Group of workers harvesting tea. Greek women. Taken sometime between 1905 and 1915. From the album "Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Russian Empire."

"Are you finished taking your photograph?
Some of us here have work to do."