Sawyers on the Svir River
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Sawyers on the Svir River — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga, Svirʹ River, Baltic Waterway).
Subjects: woodcutters, svirʹ river, logs, volga-baltic waterway, group portraits.
Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.
Original Russian caption: Pilʹshchiki na Sviri. [Rossiĭskaia imperiia].
