Image:Prokudin-Gorskii SPB Cathedral of Resurrection of Christ (detail).jpg

This work is in the public domain in Russia according to article 1256 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. This work was published on territory of the Russian Empire (Russian Republic) except for territories of the Grand Duchy of Finland (Великое княжество Финляндское) and Congress Poland (Царство Польское) before 7 November 1917 NS and wasn't re-published for 30 days following initial publications in the territory of Soviet Russia or any other states. The Russian Federation (early RSFSR, Soviet Russia) is only historical heir but not legal successor of the Russian Empire[1][2]. The Russian Empire wasn't a participant in international copyright agreements, so this work is not protected by copyright internationally. ↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Information about succession of the Russian Federation, legal continuity and repatriation (Russian) ↑ Legal Department of Federation Council of Russia. Commentaries to information from Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russian) If it is possible - use {{PD-Russia-2008}} or {{PD-old}} instead of this tag.

This is one of the earliest color photographs in existence and was originally taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire. It was taken using three black-and-white exposures, with red, yellow and blue filters respectively, long before color photographic printing existed. The three resulting images were projected using color filters to create a color projection.

More recently, the Library of Congress has scanned Prokudin-Gorskii's work and contracted with other firms to produce high-resolution color images from the black and white scans. See the The Empire that was Russia exhibit.

This file is in the public domain; it was taken from the Library of Congress' website and (may be) converted from TIFF to PNG.

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID prokc.03947 This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.

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