Bill W
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Some of the participants here may find this Washington Post article interesting: a collection of pre-WWI color photos of Russia in a Library of Congress collection:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/04/19/what-russia-looked-like-before-1914-in-color/?hpid=hp_no-name_photo-story-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
The full Library of Congress collection can be accessed here:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/prok/
Some of these were published several decades ago in a book entitled Photographs for the Tsar.
http://www.amazon.com/Photographs-Tsar-Mikhailovich-Prokudin-Gorskii-Commissioned/dp/0803769962?ie=UTF8&keywords=photographs%20for%20the%20tsar&qid=1461115242&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/04/19/what-russia-looked-like-before-1914-in-color/?hpid=hp_no-name_photo-story-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
The full Library of Congress collection can be accessed here:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/prok/
Some of these were published several decades ago in a book entitled Photographs for the Tsar.
http://www.amazon.com/Photographs-Tsar-Mikhailovich-Prokudin-Gorskii-Commissioned/dp/0803769962?ie=UTF8&keywords=photographs%20for%20the%20tsar&qid=1461115242&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1
