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Early color photograph from Russia, created by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire from 1909 to 1915.

The Monastery of St. Nil on Stolobnyi Island in Lake Seliger in Tver Province.

Full caption from The Library of Congress exhibition "The Empire That Was Russia:
View of the Nilova Monastery. The Monastery of St. Nil' on Stolobnyi Island in Lake Seliger in Tver' Province, northwest of Moscow, illustrates the fate of church institutions during the course of Russian history. St. Nil (d. 1554) established a small monastic settlement on the island around 1528. In the early 1600s his disciples built what was to become one of the largest, wealthiest, monasteries in the Russian Empire. The monastery was closed by the Soviet regime in 1927, and the structure was used for various secular purposes, including a concentration camp and orphanage. In 1990 the property was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church and is now a functioning monastic community once more.
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Author
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii (1863–1944)  wikidata:Q101516
 
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
Alternative names
Русский: Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский
Deutsch: Sergei Michailowitsch Prokudin-Gorski
English: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
中文：​謝爾蓋·米哈伊洛維奇·普羅庫金-戈斯基
Description Russian-French photographer, chemist, inventor, publisher, pedagogue and teacher
Date of birth/death 18 August 1863 (in Julian calendar) Edit this at Wikidata 27 September 1944 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Murom, Russian Empire Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q101516
digital rendering for the Library of Congress by Walter Frankhauser / WalterStudio
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 There are no known restrictions on photographs taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
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Camera location57° 14′ 13.2″ N, 33° 04′ 01.2″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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Stolobny Island

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57°14'13"N, 33°4'1"E

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