Village of Kovzha: Shoreline Reinforcements

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

Village of Kovzha: Shoreline Reinforcements, Volga, Volga-Baltic Waterway, Kovzha, 1909

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Village of Kovzha: Shoreline Reinforcements — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga, Volga-Baltic Waterway, Kovzha).

Subjects: churches, volga-baltic waterway, waterways, kovzha, retaining walls.

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

Original Russian caption: Selo Kovzha. Beregovyia ukrieplenīia. [Rossiĭskaia imperiia].