100 Years Old Historical Photos Of Russia

The photographs you are about to see are the work of Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii (1863–1944), who was funded by Czar Nicholas II to travel the span of the empire, photographing it in full color. While some of the photographs have not been attributed a specific date, they were all captured between 1905 and 1915. We would like to invite you to scroll down this page to see just how different Russia was over a century ago:

1. The Emir of Bukhara, Alim Khan (1911)

2. A Rabbi with some students (1911)

3. A countryside fire brigade (1909)

4. Prisoners incarcerated in a zindan

5. Women working with hay at Leushinskii Monastery (1909)

6. Evgenievsky Spring in Borzhom

7. A group of children sitting on a hill (1909)

8. A Bashkir switch operator (1910)

9. A melon vendor with his stock (1911)

10. The construction of a dam (1912)

11. A group of workers

12. A Surt woman

13. A yarn spinner from the village of Izvedovo

14. A group of settlers in Grafovka

15. The view from Belgorod bell tower (1911)