Stone Mound with Pole Serving as a Beacon During Floods,…

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

Stone Mound with Pole Serving as a Beacon During Floods, Oleni Roga, Volga, Baltic Waterway, Volga-Baltic Waterway, 1909

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Stone Mound with Pole Serving as a Beacon During Floods, Oleni Roga — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga, Baltic Waterway, Volga-Baltic Waterway).

Subjects: volga-baltic waterway, haystacks, beacons.

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

Original Russian caption: Kamennyĭ kurgan s vesennim stolbom, sluzhashchim maiakom vo vremia razliva. Olenʹi Roga. [Rossiĭskaia imperiia].