Northeastern Smolensk with the Fortress Wall

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1912 • Smolensk

Northeastern Smolensk with the Fortress Wall, 1912

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Northeastern Smolensk with the Fortress Wall — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1912.

Subjects: cities & towns, forts & fortifications, churches, smolensk, cityscape photographs.

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

Original Russian caption: Siev.-Vost. chastʹ g. Smolenska s kriepostnoĭ stienoĭ.