Gorskii
1910 Samarkand, Uzbekistan
A photograph of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, made around 1910 by the Russian photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his pioneering series of color images recording the cities and peoples of the Russian Empire.
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