Today The Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle for Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.
Today in a few countries Google celebrate Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky's 155th Birthday.
Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was born on August 30 1863.
He was a Russian chemist and photographer.
He is best known for his pioneering work in color photography of early 20th-century Russia.
Prokudin-Gorsky was born in the ancestral estate of Funikova Gora, in what is now Kirzhachsky
District, Vladimir Oblast.
His parents were of the Russian nobility, and the family had a long military history.
They moved to Saint Petersburg, where Prokudin-Gorsky enrolled in Saint Petersburg State Institute
of Technology to study chemistry under Dmitri Mendeleev.
He also studied music and painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts.
In 1920, Prokudin-Gorsky remarried and had a daughter with his assistant Maria Fedorovna
née Schedrimo.
The family finally settled in Paris in 1922, reuniting with his first wife and children.
Prokudin-Gorsky set up a photo studio there together with his three adult children, naming
it after his fourth child, Elka.
In the 1930s, the elderly Prokudin-Gorsky continued with lectures showing his photographs
of Russia to young Russians in France, but stopped commercial work and left the studio
to his children, who named it Gorsky Frères.
He died in Paris on September 27, 1944, a month after the Liberation of Paris.
He is buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery.
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