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The Empire That Was Russia

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  • The Empire That Was Russia

    Russia was once a great empire. Yeah. Here are some color pictures of Tsarist Russia. It looked really nice, why the revolution?




    Tobol'sk, Siberia (Doesn't look very scary to me.)


    Tiflis (Tbilisi), Georgia


    Russian peasant girls. They look so approachable.


    Kazakhs!


    The hills are alive, with the sound of bloodshed... (Communism has arrived.)


    Aren't Tajiks the greatest?

  • #2
    Central Asians were never the hottest kind... I have to agree. Russia had a lot of beautiful Euro looking places (much more than now) before the commies ruined it.

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    • #3
      what do the Village Writers (valentin rasputin, bells?)
      and the Society for the Preservation of Monuments have in common?

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      • #4
        I like the picture of the kazakhs the best, they look cool.

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        • #5
          Looks like China.

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          • #6
            All and any empires are premised on one people subjugating another. So you know what? Phuck empires. There's nothing "great" about them.
            Achkerov kute.

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            • #7
              Central Asians were never the hottest kind... I have to agree. Russia had a lot of beautiful Euro looking places (much more than now) before the commies ruined it.
              Russia was a village before the Soviet Union darling.

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              • #8
                Oh my Gorbachev, Red, you're silly.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by TomServo
                  Oh my Gorbachev, Red, you're silly.

                  Believe me, I'm not a communist, but its true what Կարմիր Բ
                  said, communism brought Russia to the 20th century, and not only Russia, but all the recent Sovjet republics.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Կարմիր Բ
                    Russia was a village before the Soviet Union darling.
                    With the fastest growing economy in the developed world.

                    If the revolution had not happened, and proper democratic reforms had happened, it would probably be Russia rather than America that would be the World's superpower today.

                    About those photos being in colour:
                    Prokudin-Gorskii's photographic method and the digital technology, known as digichromatography, that were used to produce the vibrant color images in this exhibition are detailed in this section.


                    Was colour photography invented in Russian, then? I've read of the same three-negative technique being used somewhere else, but can't remember where (I've a feeling it was America in the 1920s). Any photographic historians know more about it?
                    Plenipotentiary meow!

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