Category: Comrade’s Corner

Fisherman on the Iset’ River

by jkelly24 • January 21, 2018

This is one of the many photos taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii for Tsar Nicholas the II.This one, in particular, was taken in the Ural Mountains, near the settlement of Kamensk-Uralskii, in 1909.This time, 1909, was at the beginning of the bulk of Prokudin-Gorskii’s photography for the Tsar, which had commissioned him to travel and photograph the country at the time.

by eabudu • January 20, 2018

https://www.wdl.org/en/item/2496/#q=+Bukhara

As I begin my journey into Russia, I wanted to push myself to expand my knowledge into worlds unknown, worlds that will make me a more well rounded student. I consider myself a Europeanist, so my goal for today was to explore something out of my comfort zone.

by dianaschulberg • January 19, 2018

download — Weapons Cabinet in the Arsenal Museum of the Zlatoust Plant by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in 1910

by daltonragland • January 19, 2018

Three generations of a Russian family in Zlatoust, Russia in 1909.

This photo depicts three generations of a Russian family and the beginning of the twentieth century. This family lived in a town know as Zlatoust in the Ural Mountains. The town had become a hub for transportation and arms production at the turn of the century.