{"id":1693,"date":"2009-10-28T08:46:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T12:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2009-10-28T08:46:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T12:46:48","slug":"one-for-the-russophiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/1693","title":{"rendered":"One for the Russophiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/hollisterhovey.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/photography-tsar.html\">HH&#8217;s blog<\/a>, the Library of Congress&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/exhibits\/empire\/\">Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record<\/a> collection. I&#8217;ll let Hollister tell the tale:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;<span style=\"font-size: small;\">on the eve of the first world war and the Russian Revolution, photographer\u00a0Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii talked Nicholas into backing his plan to capture the Russian Empire on <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">digichrome glass plates. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Between 1909-1912, and again in 1915, he completed surveys of eleven regions, traveling in a specially equipped railroad car provided by the Ministry of Transportation.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Well worth searching\/browsing for a while; it makes me want to pull out my copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0929701496?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=hawkdog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0929701496\">Arseniev<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/D?prok:4:.\/temp\/~pp_rG1L::\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/service\/pnp\/prokc\/20000\/20069r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"505\" \/><\/a>&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I wonder what the graffiti says? Also, looks like a Turkman <\/span>ak \u00f6\u00fd or gara \u00f6\u00fd\u00a0 &#8211; the Central Asian version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yurt\">ger<\/a> &#8211; to me.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via HH&#8217;s blog, the Library of Congress&#8217; Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record collection. I&#8217;ll let Hollister tell the tale: &#8230;on the eve of the first world war and the Russian Revolution, photographer\u00a0Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii talked Nicholas into backing his plan to capture &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/1693\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff","category-wunderkammer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-rj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}