The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated: The Empire That Was Russia | Exhibitions - Library of CongressThe Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated: The Empire That Was Russia Exhibition Home The photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863–1944) offer a vivid portrait of a lost world—the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution. His subjects ranged from the medieval churches and monasteries of old Russia, to the railroads and factories of an emerging in
