Colour photographs from Russia in the early 1900s

It's like seeing Gorky, Dosteyevsky and Tolstoy in pictures:

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Awesome impressions. Colour photographs from the first half of the 20th century have always a magical appeal. Thanks for sharing.

Fascinating photographs.

As the article states, he was not the first who did such. I myself have prints of earlier photographs taken with a sliding magazine camera.

However the fact that his photographs have been spread via the internet, in a version based on the seperations and not on prints of the time, showed many people that there was practical colour photography long before Kodachrome.