Video from the BBC in which a correspondent travels to Tomsk and sees the inside of one of the old wooden houses here.

 from BBC show Russia: A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby

So Helen turned me on to this large collection of photos of Russia taken for LIFE by Margaret Bourke-White during the second world war. Apparently a lot of them were unpublished. All of them are fantastic. You can see more here.

So Helen turned me on to this large collection of photos of Russia taken for LIFE by Margaret Bourke-White during the second world war. Apparently a lot of them were unpublished. All of them are fantastic. You can see more here.

Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900’s

Thought these were really fascinating, and yes, you can still get a lot of these hats



“The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people.”