Old Peter the Great Lock near the Village of Petrovskoe

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

Old Peter the Great Lock near the Village of Petrovskoe, Petrovskoe, Volga, Volga-Baltic Waterway, 1909

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Old Peter the Great Lock near the Village of Petrovskoe — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Petrovskoe, Volga, Volga-Baltic Waterway).

Subjects: petrovskoe, volga-baltic waterway, sluices, ruins.

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

Original Russian caption: Staryĭ Petrovskīĭ shliuz okolo der. Petrovskoe. [Rossiĭskaia imperiia].