Prokudin-Gorskii was a genius, his photos quality is incredible considering they were made in 1911
Pic related is Alim Khan, last emir of Bukhara.
>In March 1918 activists of the Young Bukharan Movement (Yeni Bukharlylar) informed the Bolsheviks that the Bukharans were ready for the revolution and that the people were awaiting liberation. The Red Army marched to the gates of Bukhara and demanded that the emir surrender the city to the Young Bukharans. As Russian sources report, the emir responded by killing the Bolshevik delegation, along with several hundred Russian supporters of the Bolsheviks in Bukhara and the surrounding territories. The majority of Bukharans did not support an invasion and the ill-equipped and ill-disciplined Bolshevik army fled back to the Soviet stronghold at Tashkent.
Kek, shame it all went to shit regardless
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>>26618
>All them colorful, comfy and unique outfits
>ar rook the same now
Where did we go so wrong?
>>26778
Russian Jews were always like this. Now there are almost no Russian Jews because they got fucked by tsar and the communists.
>>26513
So the world wasn't black and white until the 1940s?
>>26803
Most of the early communists in Russia were jews (even Lenin had jewish ancestry) until Stalin purged them all.
>>26803
I meant all around the world.
>>26952
This one is one of the earliest, its from 1907
Smolensk, 1912
Kush-Beggi, Minister of Interior of Bukhara
>>26997
The dude looks swag as fuck, but the hat looks retarded if you imagine for a second that it isn't a hat and is actually just a really bad perm or a colony of insects
Tbilisi, today capital of Georgia.
>>27012
>cemetery wildly disproportionate to the rest of the town
Says it all.
Where can I see all the photos? The Library of Congress site sucks dick
>these photos are a hundred years old
So distant, yet so recent..
>>27547
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD-%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9
Everything was so classy back then.
>>26577
love this guy
Posting for the first time on my new home board!
I have a huge thing for super-old color photos. I think they make people uncomfortable because normies don't like thinking of anything before the 1960s as being real or tangible, preferring to think of history as some kind of fairy tale.
It's pretty hard to tell which ones are real and which ones are recolored when you look for them, though.
These are some beautiful photos
>>27026
>blue hair
first tumblrite detected
>>27026
>SCP
>>27026
Why there are two phantoms there?
This guy has seen some shit.
>>31162
>his smile and optimism: gone
These are fucking amazing! Are there any other dudes who did old.colour photographs?
These look so comfy and full of life compared to black and white photos.
>>27111
What does it mean? The city is ancient?
Why did the first world war have to happen and change so much? We lost so many amazing things because of it.
>>33367
Greedy people and xenophobia, as usual.
>>33858
>xenophobia
>Mistaking the justification for the actual cause
>>33250
Remember how sharp black and white photos are?
These were done the same way but with 3 exposures at once for red/green/blue. You get a really sharp image, but with some abrasion like you see on the camel.
