<p>Early color photograph from Russia, created by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Mikhailovich_Prokudin-Gorskii" class="extiw" title="w:Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii">Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii</a> as part of his work to document the Russian Empire from 1909 to 1915. 
</p><p>The Monastery of St. Nil on Stolobnyi Island in Lake Seliger in Tver Province.
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Full caption from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/architecture.html">The Library of Congress exhibition  "The Empire That Was Russia</a>:<br><i>View of the Nilova Monastery. The Monastery of St. Nil' on Stolobnyi Island in Lake Seliger in Tver' Province, northwest of Moscow, illustrates the fate of church institutions during the course of Russian history. St. Nil (d. 1554) established a small monastic settlement on the island around 1528. In the early 1600s his disciples built what was to become one of the largest, wealthiest, monasteries in the Russian Empire. The monastery was closed by the Soviet regime in 1927, and the structure was used for various secular purposes, including a concentration camp and orphanage. In 1990 the property was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church and is now a functioning monastic community once</i>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky" class="extiw" title="w:en:Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky"><span title="Russian chemist and photographer">Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii</span></a>
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