Early Color Photography by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin

An Armenian woman in national costume poses for Prokudin-Gorskii on a hillside near Artvin (in present day Turkey), circa 1910

Alternators made in Budapest, Hungary, in the power generating hall of a hydroelectric station in Iolotan (Eloten), Turkmenistan, on the Murghab River, ca. 1910.

General view of the Nikolaevskii Cathedral from southwest in Mozhaisk in 1911.

General view of the wharf at Mezhevaya Utka, 1912.

A man and woman pose in Dagestan, ca. 1910