Then and now: 30 eloquent pictures of how Russia has changed over 100 years
A hundred years - is it a lot or a little in the life of one country? For our homeland, which has such a stormy and stunning imagination, this is, undoubtedly, a significant period of time during which an incredible amount of events and changes has occurred.
100 years ago, Russian photographer, public figure and inventor Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky set himself the goal of making color photographs demonstrating what his native land looks like. So he went on a trip to the Russian Empire, taking a huge number of pictures, and completed the task. Today these photographs have a special historical value.
A century later, caring people tried to repeat these shots as much as possible in order to compare what modern Russia and Russia of the past look like.
1912/2010
Church in New Ladoga, 1909 / today
Church of the Fedorov Icon of the Mother of God, Yaroslavl, 1911/2009
Church of the Nativity, Krokhino, 1909/2013
The village of Dryannovo, 1912/2015
Railway near Kondopoga, 1916/2012
The bend of the Chusovaya river near the village of Sloboda, 1912/2011
Nilova Desert Monastery (Stolobny Island, Lake Seliger), 1910/2010
Nilova Monastery Desert, 1910/2010
Nilova Monastery Desert, 1910/2010
Vitebsk, 1912/2012
Obelisk to Emperor Peter I, the village of Veskovo, museum-estate "Boat of Peter I", 1911/2008
Railway, Perm, 1909/2012
Ostashkov, 1910/2010
Novo-Nikolsky Cathedral, Mozhaysk, 1911/2008
Novo-Nikolsky Cathedral from a different angle, Mozhaysk, 1911/2010
Torzhok, 1910/2010
Dmitrievsky Cathedral, Vladimir, 1911/2009
Fresco above the entrance to the Church of St. John Chrysostom, Yaroslavl, 1911/2011
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