Monument to Emperor Alexander II Commemorating the…

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1909 • Volga, Volga-Baltic Waterway, Baltic Waterway

Monument to Emperor Alexander II Commemorating the Completion of the…, Volga, Volga-Baltic Waterway, Baltic Waterway, 1909

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Monument to Emperor Alexander II Commemorating the Completion of the Mariinsky System — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga, Volga-Baltic Waterway, Baltic Waterway).

Subjects: monuments, volga-baltic waterway, lumber industry, waterways, ii.

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

Original Russian caption: Pamiatnik Imperatoru Aleksandru II v pamiatʹ okonchanīia Marīinskoĭ sistemy. [Rossiĭskaia imperiia].