S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky: The Splendors of Russia in Natural Color 1905–1916

Exhibition of Šechtl & Voseček Museum of Photography February–May 2006

 

Dagestan

Типы Дагестана.

Dagestan Types.


A couple in traditional dress pose for a portrait in the mountainous interior region of Gunib (1) on the north slope of the Caucasus Mountains (2) in what is today the Dagestan Republic of the Russian Federation.

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, , LC-DIG-ppmsc-04437. Digital color rendering by Walter Frankhauser.


Типы Дагестана.

Dagestan Types.


Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, , LC-DIG-ppmsc-03945. Digital color rendering by Walter Frankhauser.


Типы Дагестана.

Dagestan Types.


Dagestan, meaning “land of mountains” in the Turkic languages, contains a population consisting of many nationalities, including Avars, Lezgi, Noghay, Kumuck, and Tabasarans. Pictured here is a Sunni Muslim man of undetermined nationality wearing traditional dress and headgear, with a sheathed dagger at his side.

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, , LC-DIG-ppmsc-04436. Digital color rendering by Walter Frankhauser.


В горах Дагестана.

In the mountains of Dagestan.


Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, , LC-DIG-prokc-21684. Digital color rendering by Jan Hubička based on color composite by Blaise Agüera y Arcas.

Аул Шамиля. Дагестан.

Shamil's village. Dagestan.


Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, , LC-DIG-prokc-21562. Digital color rendering by Jan Hubička based on color composite by Blaise Agüera y Arcas.

All photographs Prokudin-Gorsky took in Daghestan
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