General View of the Goritsy Convent
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General View of the Goritsy Convent — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga-Baltic Waterway, Volga, Baltic Waterway).
Subjects: volga-baltic waterway, monasteries, waterfronts.
Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.
Original Russian caption: Obshchīĭ vid Goritskago monastyria. [Rossiĭskaia imperiia].
