Tomb of Timur east side Prokudin Gorskii
1910 Samarkand, Uzbekistan
The eastern side of the Gur-e-Amir, the mausoleum of Timur (Tamerlane) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, photographed around 1910 by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, who documented the Russian Empire using an early three-exposure color process.
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