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How to visit Tsarist Russia

 
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-russia...

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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

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Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara, photographed 100 years ago.

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