Goritsy Convent from Maura Hill

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1909 • Volga-Baltic Waterway, Volga, Baltic Waterway

Goritsy Convent from Maura Hill, Volga-Baltic Waterway, Volga, Baltic Waterway, 1909

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Goritsy Convent from Maura Hill — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga-Baltic Waterway, Volga, Baltic Waterway).

Subjects: volga-baltic waterway, monasteries, meadows, waterways.

Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.

Original Russian caption: [Goritskīĭ] monastyrʹ s Maurovoĭ gory. [Rossiĭskaia imperiia].