Entrance to the Orsha Monastery and the Abbess's House

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1910 • Russia (Federation), Volga River Region

Entrance to the Orsha Monastery and the Abbess's House, Russia (Federation), Volga River Region, 1910

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Entrance to the Orsha Monastery and the Abbess's House — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1910 (Russia (Federation), Volga River Region).

Subjects: volga river region, monasteries.

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

Original Russian caption: Vkhod v Orshskīĭ monastyrʹ i dom igumenʹi.