Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky: Subjects & Themes

Browse works by subject category

Color Separation Negatives

219 works

Karelia

Waterfalls, lakes, railway works and settlements of Karelia, photographed in 1915 along the new Murmansk Railway.

71 works

Rivers

29 works

Asia

18 works

Central

18 works

Portrait Photographs

Portraits of workers, peasants, officials, clergy and rulers, from waterway supervisors to the Emir of Bukhara.

18 works

Railroad Tracks

17 works

Log Buildings

15 works

Suna River

13 works

Group Portraits

12 works

Trees

12 works

Turkmenistan

12 works

Churches

Orthodox churches of every kind, from wooden village churches in the north to frescoed stone churches in Yaroslavl, Rostov and Suzdal.

11 works

Interiors

10 works

Cathedrals

9 works

Clothing & Dress

9 works

Landscape Photographs

9 works

Battle Of

8 works

Battlefields

8 works

Borodino

8 works

Europe

8 works

Machinery

8 works

Mills

8 works

Solovetski Islands

8 works

Wooden Buildings

8 works

Dams

7 works

Historic Sites

7 works

Petrozavodsk

7 works

Religious Articles

7 works

Solovetskiĭ Monastyr

7 works

Villages

7 works

Antiquities

6 works

Arches

6 works

Bags

6 works

Cliffs

6 works

Cotton Industry

6 works

Italy

6 works

Meadows

6 works

Monasteries

Monasteries and convents across the empire, including Kirillo-Belozersky, Solovetsky, the Nilov Monastery on Lake Seliger and the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma.

6 works

Railroad Stations

6 works

Textiles

6 works

Tile Floors

6 works

Ural Mountains Region

Ironworks, mining settlements, rock formations and Bashkir villages of the Urals, from Perm and Ekaterinburg to Zlatoust and the Chusovaya River.

6 works

Barracks

5 works

Buildings

5 works

Camels

5 works

Canals

5 works

Domes

5 works

Ethnographic Photographs

5 works

Exhibitions & Displays

5 works

Fences

5 works

Lakes & Ponds

5 works

Medvezhyegorsk

5 works

Railroad Cars

5 works

Saint Petersburg

5 works

Still Life Photographs

5 works

Ukraine

5 works

Vases

5 works

Volga River Region

Towns, monasteries and riverside life of the upper Volga, from its source near Lake Peno to Kostroma, Yaroslavl and Rostov, photographed in 1910-1911.

5 works

Waterfalls

5 works