Fortress Wall with the Veselukha Tower, Smolensk

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1912 • Smolensk

Fortress Wall with the Veselukha Tower, Smolensk, 1912

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

Subjects: forts & fortifications, smolensk.

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

Original Russian caption: Kriepostnaia stiena s bashneĭ Veselukha. Smolensk.