How to visit Tsarist Russia
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-russia...
Three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov; 1909
— photographed by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in his project documenting Tsarist Russia.
Some of the photos have now been posted on this Denver Post photo blog
Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara, photographed 100 years ago.


