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Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) was an active innovator in the field of color photography. Between 1909 and 1915 he undertook an ambitious photographic survey of the Russian Empire. The Prokudin-Gorskii Collection was sold to the Library of Congress in the 1940s by the heirs of Prokudin-Gorskii. It consists of 1,900 glass plate negatives and some 2,700 contact prints that are mounted in fourteen albums. Using light filters, Prokudin-Gorskii was able to create color projections from the glass plate negatives. Moder color composites of these are available online. Frequent subjects include people, religious architecture, historic sites, industry and agriculture, public works construction, scenes along water and railway transportation routes, and views of villages and cities.
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