Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky – Russian photographer
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian photographer, chemist (pupil of Mendeleev), inventor, publisher, educator. By the way, he was a member of the Imperial Russian Geographical, Imperial Russian Technical and Russian Photographic Societies. He made a significant contribution to the development of photography and cinematography.
To tell the truth he was a pioneer of color photography in Russia, the creator of the Collections of Sights of the Russian Empire.
This man devoted his entire scientific talent and tireless energy to one ambitious goal. He wanted to show the beauty and richness of the great country, which was called the Russian Empire, “in natural colors”.
The boy was born on August 30, 1863 into the family of Russian nobility. Prokudin-Gorsky studied chemistry under Dmitri Mendeleev in the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology. Also he studied music and painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts.
In 1889, he went to Berlin, where studied at the Technical University.
A year later, in 1890, he married Anna Aleksandrovna Lavrova (1870-1937), the daughter of a Russian metal expert.
In 1901, Prokudin-Gorsky established a photography studio and laboratory in Saint Petersburg.
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