These oddly saturated photographs are from around 1905, when color film was just beginning the develop. Czar Nicholas II funded two pioneering Russian photographers to document the diverse landscape and people of his empire.
On the Sim River, 1910
Armenian Women in Holiday Attire in Artvin, between 1905 and 1915
Work at the Bakalskii Mine, 1910
See the rest of these rare photographs at vintag.es
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