30 Rare Color Photos of the Russian Empire from 100+ Years Ago
A picture of Alim Khan (1880-1944), Emir of Bukhara, taken in 1911.
Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Mozhaisk. Taken some time between 1911-1912
Mugan. Settler’s family. Settlement of Grafovka. (Russian settlers, possibly Molokans, in the Mugan steppe of Azerbaijan. circa 1905-1915
Turkmen man posing with camel loaded with sacks, probably of grain or cotton, Central Asia. circa 1905-1915
Metal Truss Railroad Bridge (Kama River, near Perm city). circa 1905-1915
Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, in Bayram-Ali (Bayramaly). Taken in 1911.
Young Russian peasant women in front of traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River near the small town of Kirillov. Taken in 1909.
On the handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway. Handcar riding along the Murmansk railroad, on the shore of Lake Onega. Taken in 1915.
Rafts on the Peter the Great Canal. City of Shlisselburg. Taken in 1909.
Zindan (traditional Central Asian prison), with inmates looking out through the bars and a guard with Russian rifle, uniform, and boots, likely in Bukhara, Uzebkistan]. circa 1905-1915
Laying concrete for the dam’s sluice. [Beloomut]. Workers and supervisors posing for photograph amid preparations for pouring cement for sluice dam foundation across the Oka River near Beloomut. Taken in 1912.
Stork nests on unidentified religious building, probably a mosque in Bukhara. Taken in 1911.
View of Tbilisi (Georgia), in the early 1900s. circa 1909-1915
Dagestani couple posed outdoors for a portrait. Taken in 1904.
Man sitting and holding a hookah. circa 1905-1915.
Mills Taken in 1912.
View of Suzdal along the Kamenka River. Taken in 1912.
Group of workers harvesting tea. Greek women. [Chakva]. circa 1905-1915.
Bashkir woman in national costume. Taken in 1910.
Lilacs. circa 1905-1915.
Molding of an artistic casting. [Kasli Iron Works]. Production of artistic casting in the Kasli Iron Works, located in the heart of the Ural Mountains between the cities of Ekaterinburg and Cheliabinsk. The plant was known for the high quality of its cast iron products and for its highly-skilled work force, which numbered over three thousand persons at the time this photograph was taken in 1910.
Alternators made in Budapest, Hungary, in the power generating hall of a hydroelectric station in Iolotan on the Murghab River. This was the Hindu Kush Hydro Power Plant, in today’s Turkmenistan, the largest hydro power plant of Russian Empire (built 1909). Taken in 1911.
Muslim man decorated with military medal, wearing traditional dress and headgear, with a sheathed dagger at his side. Dagestan. Taken in 1904.
The Village of Kolchedan in Ural Mountains, taken in 1912.
View of Saltinskoe (Salty) gorge in the Caucasus Mountains in Dagestan. Taken in 1904.
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. Taken in 1910.
Fabric merchant. Samarkand. Merchant’s display includes silk, cotton, and wool fabrics as well as a few carpets. A framed page of the Koran hangs at the top of the stall. circa 1905-1915.
Melon vendor, dressed in traditional Central Asian attire, at his stand in the marketplace of Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan. circa 1905-1915.
Woman in formal dress, posed, standing near gate. circa 1905-1915.
Self-portrait, 1912
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