Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (August 30, 1863 – September 27, 1944) was a Russian chemist and photographer best known for his pioneering work in color photography of early 20th-century Russia.. Around 1905, Prokudin-Gorsky envisioned and formulated a plan to use the emerging technological advances that had been made in color photography to document the Russian Empire …

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I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

A nice collection of late 19th century photos of the Russian Empire. It looks like a totally different world from how modern Russia looks now.

The Effects of the Mongol Empire on Russia on GeoHistory | The history of Russia has always been a relatively sad and tumultuous one wrought with wars, power struggles, and abrupt changes. These changes have often been forcibly thrust wholesale upon Russia, rather than evolving through gradual…

Just to remind you if you didn’t see – there is a Prokudin-Gorsky photographer exist who made tens of photos of Russian Empire in color. They are not colorized later – they were actual color captured back then, 100 and more years ago.

The Russian Empire (Russian: Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.. The third largest empire in world history, …

1809 The Finnish War concludes, and Sweden cedes Finland to the Russian Empire.. 1812 Under the leadership of Napoleon, France invades Russia in June.After reaching Moscow, French forces are pushed back and defeated by the end of the year. 1829 The Russo-Turkish war of 1828-1829 concludes.Defeated Turkey cedes the Eastern Black Sea shore to Russia…

Leaders of Muscovy, Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union: Russia is a federal multiparty republic with a bicameral legislative body; its head of state is the president, and the head of government is the prime minister. What is now the territory of Russia has been inhabited from ancient times by various peoples, and as such the …

The Russian Empire (Pre-reform Russian: Pоссiйская Имперiя, Modern Russian: Российская империя, translit: Rossiyskaya Imperiya) was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917.It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia, and the predecessor of the Soviet Union.It was one of the largest empires the world had seen.