Journeys through the Russian Empire: The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

William Craft Brumfield

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Introduction: An unsentimental journey -- Part I: Documenting cultural legacies of an empire. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky : photographer of an empire -- The intertwining fates of two collections : the Prokudin-Gorsky Collection, The Library of Congress; The William Craft Brumfield Collection, National Gallery of Art -- Part II: Journeys.The ancient heartland -- The West : from Smolensk southward to Ryazan -- The Northwest : from Lake Ladoga to the Volga Basin -- The Upper Volga Basin : from the Valdai Heights to Torzhok -- The Volga from Uglich to Yurevets -- From the Ural Mountains into Siberia -- Central Asia-Turkestan -- North to the Solovetsky Islands -- Conclusion: Above the abyss : a reflection on photographs as an instrument of memory

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