Chain Tug with a Train of Barges

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

Chain Tug with a Train of Barges, Volga, Baltic Waterway, Volga-Baltic Waterway, 1909

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Chain Tug with a Train of Barges — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga, Baltic Waterway, Volga-Baltic Waterway).

Subjects: tugboats, volga-baltic waterway, barges.

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

Original Russian caption: Tuer s karavanom. [Rossiĭskaia imperiia].