Color Post Cards of Russian Empire 100 Years Ago
In our recent publications we told about the amazing Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorsky (the official photographer of Russian empire) who had a special technology of making three different shots and then combining them into one colour image.
So at that time that was the first coloured photo art about Russia. But not the only one.
At the beginning of the XX century another Russian photographer, Sergey Ivanovich Borisov, during his expedition across mountain areas of Altai (1907-1914) made more than 1000 photos later on used as material for coloured post cards of various European publishing offices.
Here is the part of them.
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those are just black and white photos which are colored by hand afterwards
No, postcard are just very old, so colors probably changed over time.
Here is the Prokudin-Gorskiy collection, scanned from original glass plates:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/prokhtml/prokabt.html
I think he’s talking about these postcards, which quite clearly seem to be black and white photos colored by hands afterwards. Prokudin-Gorskiy was definitely color, but these postcards are by a different person.
Another site with Prokudin-Gorskiy photographs:
http://www.ummagurau.com/art/russia/
That’s a nice satellite dish in picture six.
Beautiful wild country.
NICE pix and the accuracy of the coloring is really good THANKS
Altay is the motherland of Turks. And you can see on the photo original turks. Turks are mongoloids. Most of them has attacked in 15 century Byzantine Empire (modern Turkey) and stayed there, calling these lands with dirty name of Turkey.
Original turks are called Siberian Tatars, they are mongoloids (Kazan Tatars are Europeoids).
When Russians came to Altay (motherland of Turks) there were only about 5-8 thousands of Siberian Tatars (original turks). They are about 50 thousands nowadays.
Now Altay is inhabited by Russians (95%).
Turks, dirty pigs, go back to your Mongolia! Return our christian land (modern Turkey) to Christians! Pay for genocide of Armenians!
Altai demographics: Russians - 57%, Altai native population - 33%, other etnic groups - about 10%.
PS. Don’t be a moron.
I’m sure Jesus would agree.
Idiot! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altai_Krai
Russians make the majority with 92%. Germans are the second with about 3%. The area is also populated by 2% Ukrainians, 0.4% Kazakhs, 0.35% Tatars, 0.32% Belarusians, 0.31% Armenians, and by people of other nationalities.
Siberian Tatars (turks/mongoloids) are only 0.32% of the population.
Ok, don’t idiot me!
I’m talking about Altai Republic, where the pictures were taken, and my demographic info is correct:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altai_Republic
Why are you talking about Altai kray which has nothing to do with the photos I have no idea. Next time think before blurting out another stupid remark.
These are fantastic!!!
As someone who helped put both those Wikipedia pages together in the first place and who has lived in the Altai region (and
Thank you for sharing these. I really enjoyed looking through them.
Thanks for sharing these pictures. I really enjoyed looking through them.
I think I’ve seen advertisements for horseback tours in this region. Nice photos.
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Wonderfully evocative images of peoples. Thanks for the other links zax.
Nice yurts.
“Europoids”?
Nices cards!
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can somebody translate them?
[...] Vintage Stuff, documentary by beardeddave on July 30th, 2007 English Russia posted a number of vintage postcards with photographs taken by Sergey Ivanovich Borisov taken during his expedition across mountain [...]
Study some geography and history you fucking moron
A good start is, as always http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia
Its Altai region in Siberia. I was born there. And those are native Altai people.
LOL@”fucking mongols”. Hilarious!
Altay (Altai) where the pictures were taken is situated at the junction of Siberia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia, so in theory it could be mongols. But I believe it’s local native population (there are a few non-Caucasian ethnic groups living in that region).
I’d like to see pictures of Russian peasants or villages. Are there any?