1909. Peasant girls. Russian Empire. Photographer – Prokudin-Gorskii. 1 negative (3 frames): glass, b&w, three-color separation, 24 x 9 cm. [1024×886]. Image is not colorized. Original colors.

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1. fldog

   Young Russian peasant women in a rural area along the Sheksna River near the small town of Kirillov (59°52’00.0"N 38°23’00.0"E). 1909.

   About the photographer and the technique:

   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky

   Library of Congress collection:

   https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?sp=1&co=prok&st=grid

2. Womblechops

   Beautiful pictures. I first saw them when Biosphere used one of the (I think) Armenian ones on the cover of his "Departed Glories" album.
   https://open.spotify.com/album/6Z5pEHHjl6Patyu1NBIlj7?si=98T9sMvcSK6gdMPRAUjrqQ

3. throwawayforcitizenx

   I see blue berries and some other kind of red berry. Can any one tell what is in the middle?

4. peanut_in_wonderland

   Omg, the girl in the middle is the photograph used on the cover of a book I loved growing up – Dear America: A Coal Miner’s Bride, The Diary of Anetka Kaminska!

   It’s so nice to know where the picture finally comes from (: