Curated by
ACT
The digital revival of the glass plate images of the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I by photographer Sergei Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorskii. Very interesting from both historical and technological points of view.
3 Views
2 Downloads
Additional Tags
art link social study, art links to history, art links to science, art links to social studies, colorization of photographs, czarist russia, digichromatography, digital manipulation, early photography, glass plate negatives, a bashkir switchman, a chapel on the site where the old city of belozersk stood, a group of workers harvesting tea, a method for storing hay, a portion of the shir-dar minaret and its dome from tillia-kari, a sart old man, a settler's family, a stork, a tow rope bridge in the village of lava, austrian prisoners of war near a barrack, cathedral of the nativity of the virgin, church of the resurrection in the grove, cotton textile mill interior, dmitrievskii church, ekaterinin spring, fabric merchant, factory interior showing turbines, general view of the likanskii palace from the kura river, general view of the shakh-i zinde mosque, group of jewish children with a teacher, haying near the resting place, kareshka boat yard, loc, loc: the empire that was russia, laying concrete for the dam's sluice, library of congress, melon vendor, miraculous icon of mother of god-odigitria in the mother of god church, monks at work, nicholas ii, nomadic kirghiz, on the handcar outside petrozavidsk on the murmansk railway, peasant girls, prokudin-gorskii, rafts on the peter i canal, russian empire, russian history, sart fields, sergei mikhailovich prokudin-gorskii, steam engine kompaund with a schmidt super-heater, the cathedral of the nativity of the holy mother of god un ipatevskii monastery, the emir of bukhara, the village of kolchedan, three generations, tied stove in the kniazhii chamber, view of suzdal' from the kamanka river, view of the ciity of tobol'sk, view of the monastery from the solarium, view of the solovetskii monastery from the land, early 20th century russian culture, late 19th century russian culture, photography, art connections to social studies
Classroom Considerations
- Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)