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[theweaselking]

This photograph was taken in *1911*.

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii recorded *three* monochromatic images on glass plates. These are black and white pictures, taken through filters - one red, one blue, one green - then used with a projector system to overlap them and produce colour photographs long before the invention of colour film.

His system was never this good - the American library of congress has been using computers to digitally overlay the plates in ways that Prokudin-Gorskii never could. Still, this is a photographic record of the Russian Empire, before the Revolution.