The Empire That Was Russia

by Andy on February 3, 2004

Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up! Gather round, Gather round…

I’d like to take you back in time, if I may. Back to the days when black and white photography was all the rage, when my grandfather was just a glint in his father’s eye, and when red really was just another colour…

“Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my very great honour to present to you, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, Photographer to the Tsar, and his amazing technicolour photographs…