Posted on 08/25/2010 8:41:12 PM PDT by Charlespg
With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II
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I was referring to the 1914 War. If that one had been avoided, no Lenin/Stalin, no Hitler, probably no Great Depression, no Wilsonian template for FDR’s mass expansion of the fed gov, etc., etc.
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