You will be exploring the The Empire That Was Russia a website featuring the work of the photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii the photographer to the Russian Czar Nicholas II at the turn of the 20th century. Between 1909 and 1912 and again in 1915, he completed surveys of eleven regions of the empire, traveling in a specially equipped railroad car provided by the Ministry of Transportation.
Directions:
Click on the
homepage(the link is in red above), you will see a list of Exhibitions:
Look
through each of the different exhibits. Complete the following in a Google Document and share it with me at esepar@bmchsd.org at the end of the period.
1. What can you conclude about he diverisity
of the empire?
2. Where do you see evidence of this
diversity on the architecture exhibit?
3. What is the impact of ruling such a
diverse empire?
4. What type of work were people doing
in the empire?
5. What conclusions can you draw about
the ways in people made their living?
6. Pick two pictures. Cut and paste them in to your document. Under each, explain why you chose the picture
and what the photograph reveals about life in Russia
