The Russia that was

Shuia River; 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-

Photographer posing with two others; 1915

Church in the village of Shaidoma; 1915 

Austrian prisoners of war near a barrack, near Kiappeselga; 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress)

Isfandiyar, Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm (Khiva), full-length portrait, in uniform, seated on chair, outdoors; between 1910 and 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).

Bashkir switchman; 1910 

Altar side of the Dmitrievskii Cathedral, Vladimir; 1911

Three yurts, man seated in doorway of yurt in foreground; between 1905 and 1915 

Man and camel loaded with packs; between 1905 and 1915 

At work on the upper reaches of the Syr-Darya, Golodnaia Steppe, Four men on a horse-drawn cart, next to a cliff; between 1905 and 1915 

Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, probably in Tashkent; between 1905 and 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress)

Camel caravan carrying thorns for fodder, Golodnaia Steppe; between 1905 and 1915 

Trans-Siberian Railway metal truss bridge on stone piers, over the Kama River near Perm, Ural Mountains Region; ca. 1910

Work at the Bakalskii mine; 1910 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection

Portion of entrance door on right side of Tillia-Kari, Samarkand; between 1905 and 1915 

View of the monastery from Svetlitsa Island, Saint Nil Stolbenskii Monastery, Lake Seliger; 1910

Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara, seated holding sword; between 1905 and 1915

Corner tower of the Trinity Cathedral in the Solovetskii Monastery, Solovetski Islands; 1915

Church in Vetluga settlement; 1910 

General view of the Shakh-i Zindeh mosque (evening photo), Samarkand; between 1905 and 1915

Shepherd posed near a hillside, Samarkand; between 1905 and 1915 

Dagestani types, Man and woman posed outdoors; between 1905 and 1915

General view of the Likanskii palace from the Kura River; between 1905 and 1915

In Little Russia (Ukraine); between 1905 and 1915 

Log buildings in the Ural Mountain Region; between 1905 and 1915 

Old church of Saint Nicholas the Wonder Worker, Nyrob; 1910