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
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.”
