Amazing Foresight

Apparently the photographer to the tsar in the early 1900s had enough foresight to realise atht although they couldn't process colour film YET, that one day they would be able to. So he set up a camera with 3 different colour lenses and proceeded to go snap happy. As a result there are some absolutely STUNNING colour photos from the turn of LAST century. Some are just incredible.

title - The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii PhotographicRecord Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition)