Gallery of the Prokudin-Gorsky Legacy

One of the project's main objectives is creating the most comprehensive database of photographs of Prokudin-Gorsky.

Gallery sections:
Albums Digital Restorations Photo Comparisons Panoramas Beyond the frame Recreations

You can find short descriptions of each section below

Albums

Control albums form catalogue of Prokudin-Gorsky's collection, made by the photographer himself, based on geographical and thematic principles.

If you are not familiar with the work of Prokudin-Gorsky, we recommend that you start viewing the gallery with albums.

Views of the Napoleonic campaign area (1911, 1912)

Views along the Oka River and Suzdal (1912)

The Volga Region (contination) (1910)

The Volga and Its Tributaries (1911)

The Caucasus (1904, 1905, 1912)

The Urals (continuation) (1910, 1912)

Photo Comparison: 100 years later

Photos of Prokudin-Gorsky are compared with the modern views of the same place, which allows us to assess the scale of changes that have occurred or the degree of preservation of the object.

Smolensk. View from Lopatinskii Garden

General view of the northwestern part of Smolensk

Part of Smolensk beyond the Dnieper [River] from [Oryol] Tower

Smolensk. View of the fortress wall from Lopatiniskii Garden

Viazma. General view of the city from the northwest

View of the Miass River in Cheliabinsk

Panoramas from Prokudin-Gorsky Photos

Photos which were connected into panoramas, sometimes using additional inserts and computer processing.

Main entrance to Bibi-Khanym

Beyond the Frame of Prokdin-Gorsky's photos

In this project, images of Prokudin-Gorsky are superimposed on photos of an object of the same years, made with a wide-angle lens. This allows us to look beyond the borders of the Prokudin’s frame and see its context.

Detail of the western wall in the Cathedral of the Nativity of [the Virgin]. [Suzdal]

[Staritsa, view from the site of an old town]

[Tomb of Hieromonk Avraamiy (Palitsyn) near the wall of the Transfiguration Cathedral of Solovetsky monastery]

View of Our Savior-Iakovlevskii Monastery, from the tower of the Rostov museum in the Kremlin. Rostov Velikii (environs)

Scene in Zlatoust

Dome of the Gur-Emir mosque [mausoleum] from west (cracked). Samarkand

Duan-Beggi Medrese [Khanqah] (in Labikhauz). Bukhara

Museum of Tobolsk

Assumption Cathedral in the city of Tobolsk from the west

Digital Restoration

Restoration of Prokudin-Gorsky images, many of which were seriously damaged, and also had an initially incorrect color balance or other defects.

‘Minyar Station. Sim River ’

Author: Aleksey Gridenko

‘At the 5th water supply control’ [Irrigation canal (aryk) in the Murgab Estate]

Author: Aleksey Gridenko

Main cathedral of Goritskii Monastery from the road

Author: Aleksey Gridenko

Recreations

Printed reproductions of Prokudin-Gorsky's photographs made by himself. Of particular interest are those for which the original color negatives or even the black-and-white control print has not been preserved.