When I saw that this was from the LoC I really hoped to see some photography from the Prokudin-Gorskii collection [1] but this seems to be mostly “iconic” photo

When I saw that this was from the LoC I really hoped to see some photography from the Prokudin-Gorskii collection [1] but this seems to be mostly “iconic” photos from Western media. I’d be a lot more interested to know who the two cossacks were [2] and what they thought about at the dawn of the first world war or literally anything about the shepherd’s boy that randomly stopped for a photograph in 1910 [3], not knowing he’d be immortalized as the first shepherd caught on a color camera. The whole collection consists of thousands of (mostly) full color photographs of Russia taken on color plates between 1905 and 1915 by a single man and its well worth a look. When the plates align perfectly, the detail in the photographs is nothing short of stunning [1] http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=prok http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=prok [2] https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsc.03940/?co=prok https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsc.03940/?co=prok [3] https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppem.01541/?co=prok https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppem.01541/?co=prok