Mullah with Pupils at the Artomelinsky Mosque in Artvin

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1905 • Caucasus, Artvin, Turkey

Mullah with Pupils at the Artomelinsky Mosque in Artvin, Caucasus, Artvin, Turkey, 1905

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Mullah with Pupils at the Artomelinsky Mosque in Artvin — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken between 1905 and 1915 (Caucasus, Artvin, Turkey).

Subjects: caucasus, turkey, mullahs, school children, group portraits.

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

Original Russian caption: Mulla s uchenitsami u Artomelinskoĭ mecheti v Artvinie.