Embroidered Pall for St. Kirill's Reliquary, Gift of…
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Embroidered Pall for St. Kirill's Reliquary, Gift of Tsaritsa-Nun Maria Nagaya — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga, Baltic Waterway, Kirillov).
Subjects: tomb, saint, shrouds, kirillov, kirillo-belozerskiĭ monastyr.
Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.
Original Russian caption: Litsevoĭ pokrov na raku Prep. Kirilla. Vklad TSaritsy inokini Marīi Nagikh. [Kirillo-Belozerskiĭ monastyrʹ, Kirillov, Rossiĭskaia imperiia].
