People of the Russian Empire on the unique photographs of S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky.
Avars in Dagestan, April, 1904
Avars from Arakani settlement
Azerbaijani. They had been called “the Tatars of Baku” before the revolution
The whole photo
Armenians, 1912
Bashkir, 1910
Bashkir woman wearing a national costume
Belorussian woman
Greeks collecting tea, 1912
Georgians in holiday dresses
Georgian tomato seller, 1912
Jews: teacher and pupils in Samarkand, 1911
Cossack, 1911, Turkmenistan
Nomad Kazakhs, 1911
Karelians, 1916
Chinese. They were not rare in the Russian Empire too. Tea factory in Chakva.
Kirghiz
Hungry steppe of 1911
Kurd woman with children, 1912
Kurds of the Batumi region
Lezghin, Dagestan, 1904
Russians, 1909
Tajiks, 1911, Samarkand
Tatars, 1910, the Chelyabinsk region
Turks, 1912. Many of them lived in the Batumi region that became a part of Russia in 1878. They tried to live separately and didn’t want adopt anything strange from Russians hoping to return back.
Turkmen, 1911
Uzbeks, 1907, Samarkand
Ukrainian woman, Kursk province, 1904
Ukrainian woman, Kursk province
Finns, 1903
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amazing photos..
I wondered how successful the Soviets were in achieving assimilation. Not very, apparently. In the United States, after one generation of native born, you would not be able to tell them apart.
We don have such goal as assimilation at all. Russians always let other nations keep their culture, language and traditions alive instead of europeans and americans.
Maybe thats biggest mistake, but russians managed to make live in peace all these nations for centuries without assimilation.
Now, after USSR fall, many of these friendly before nations got their own nazis and became enemies. In the name of freedom and democracy, off cource.
Our original waves of immigrants were easily assimilated because they were largely composed of Europeans from eastern and western Europe.
African Americans have interbred to a small degree, but the divisions between white and black Americans are largely intact, and other groups, such as Mexicans, show signs that they will never be assimilated.
How come such awesome color photos in 1900s?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky
Fascinating!
Lovely old photo’s. This the interesting stuff. Got to love the sheep with the psychedelic coloured head.
Were those photos originally in color? They look quite vivid for photos from that time period.
Some look to be re-coloured, some are from Sergey Prokudin Gorsky who pioneered colour photography technique and took ethographic pictures all over Russia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky
finn “like a sir”
Its wrong translation. Photo signed as “Gulf of Finland.”
This is russian gentleman on photo.
The photo labeled “Nomad Kazakhs, 1911″ is noted as being actually Kyrgyz elsewhere in this site and others.
Original article explains that kazakhs were officially called as kyrgyzs till 1936. Therefore, little historical research was made and some author’s subscripts were corrected.
here you can find tons of them:
http://tinyurl.com/cawcllz
Amazing work!
simply wonderful. i love this.