MAKE A MEME View Large Image Prokudin-Gorskii-09.jpg Assessments 1 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 ...
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Keywords: Prokudin-Gorskii-09.jpg Assessments 1 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 http //www loc gov/exhibits/empire/architecture html The Library of Congress exhibition The Empire That Was Russia <br>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 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection Library of Congress LOC-image ppmsc 03973 1910 Creator Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky digital rendering for the Library of Congress by Walter Frankhauser / WalterStudio There are no known restrictions on photographs taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii <gallery> File Nilo-Stolobensky monastery png File Prokudin-Gorskii Saint Nil Stolbenskii Monastery 03973 jpg File Prokudin-Gorskii-09 jpg File Prokudin-Gorskii-09-edit2 jpg </gallery> 57 237 33 067 region RU-TVE_Heading WSW PD-Russia PD-1923 Photo of Lake Seliger by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Skylines in Russia Nilo-Stolobensky monastery
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