The Empire that was Russia – Exhibition

The Library of Congress has used digital imaging technology to restore to their former glory the photographs taken at the turn of the century by Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky. The newly restored color photographs form the exhibition The Empire That Was Russia: the Prokudin-Gorsky Photographic Record Recreated. For more on this fascinating collection and work undertaken to restore it, see the full story from the International Herald Tribue.