100 year old Russian colour pictures.

There is more material here:

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

FWIW, the photo of the Monastery of St. Nil' shown below is on an island in Lake Seliger, near where a part of my family had their estate. The estate was given them by Peter the Great... by that time, there was already a monastery on the island, and I am informed that many of my ancestors are buried there.

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