Then and now: 30 eloquent pictures of how Russia has changed over 100 years

A hundred years - is it a lot or a little in the life of one country? For our homeland, which has such a stormy and stunning imagination, this is, undoubtedly, a significant period of time during which an incredible amount of events and changes has occurred.

100 years ago, Russian photographer, public figure and inventor Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky set himself the goal of making color photographs demonstrating what his native land looks like. So he went on a trip to the Russian Empire, taking a huge number of pictures, and completed the task. Today these photographs have a special historical value.

A century later, caring people tried to repeat these shots as much as possible in order to compare what modern Russia and Russia of the past look like.

1912/2010

Church in New Ladoga, 1909 / today

Church of the Fedorov Icon of the Mother of God, Yaroslavl, 1911/2009

Church of the Nativity, Krokhino, 1909/2013

The village of Dryannovo, 1912/2015

Railway near Kondopoga, 1916/2012

The bend of the Chusovaya river near the village of Sloboda, 1912/2011

Nilova Desert Monastery (Stolobny Island, Lake Seliger), 1910/2010

Nilova Monastery Desert, 1910/2010

Nilova Monastery Desert, 1910/2010

Vitebsk, 1912/2012

Obelisk to Emperor Peter I, the village of Veskovo, museum-estate "Boat of Peter I", 1911/2008

Railway, Perm, 1909/2012

Ostashkov, 1910/2010

Novo-Nikolsky Cathedral, Mozhaysk, 1911/2008

Novo-Nikolsky Cathedral from a different angle, Mozhaysk, 1911/2010

Torzhok, 1910/2010

Dmitrievsky Cathedral, Vladimir, 1911/2009

Fresco above the entrance to the Church of St. John Chrysostom, Yaroslavl, 1911/2011

Rostov Kremlin, Rostov, 1911/2009

Mozhaisk Luzhetsky Ferapontov Monastery, Mozhaisk, 1911/2010

Mozhaisk Luzhetsky Ferapontov Monastery from a different angle, 1911/2012

The Imperial Palace in the village of Borodino, 1911/2012

Assumption Cathedral, Vladimir, 2011/2015

Hanaka Divan-Begi, Bukhara, 1911/2014

Church of All Saints and the Protection of the Holy Virgin, Ankhimovo village, Vologda Region, 1909/2013

View of Tobolsk from the Assumption Cathedral (from the north-western side), 1912/2012

Nikolsky Gate, Smolensk, 1912/2008

Church of Peter and Paul, the village of Novinka, Tver region, 1910/2010

Monument to the war of 1812 on the square near St. Nicholas Cathedral, Polotsk, 1912/2012

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