detail of the photograph "Po r. Karolitskhali" or "On the Karolitskhali River" showing Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. 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.
<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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1912
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress)