An Armenian woman in national costume on a hillside near Artvin (in present day Turkey), circa 1910 (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC): In 1909 and 1912 Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white […]