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Name
Русский: Прокудин-Горский, Сергей Михайлович
English: Prokudin-Gorskii, Sergei Mikhailovich
Date of birth/death 1863-08-31 1944-09-27
Location of birth/death
Русский: Муром, Россия
English: Murom, Russia
Русский: Париж, Франция
English: Paris, France

Cathedral of St. Demetrius (1194-97) in Vladimir. Color photograph by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was taken in 1911.

Full caption from The Library of Congress exhibition "The Empire Thas Was Russia":
Church of St. Dmitrii. The Church of St. Dmitrii, built in the 1190s in the town of Vladimir, east of Moscow in central European Russia, illustrates the verticality common to early Russian church architecture. This church served as the model for the Cathedral of St. Nicholas of the Orthodox Church of America on Massachusetts Avenue, in Washington, D.C.


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