Color photography *did* exist before WWI. Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky began his journey to document early 20th-century Russia in 1909.
These were NOT colorized.
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Starting in 2000, the negatives were digitized and the color triples for each subject digitally combined to produce hundreds of high-quality colour images of Russia and its neighbors from over a century ago.
Outfitted with a equipped railroad-car darkroom provided by Tsar Nicholas II and in possession of two permits that granted him access to restricted areas and cooperation from the empire's bureaucracy, Prokudin-Gorsky documented the Russian Empire between around 1909 and 1915.
His photographs offer a vivid portrait of a lost world—the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming Russian Revolution. bit.ly/3iVYRYC
It has been estimated from Prokudin-Gorsky's personal inventory that before leaving Russia, he had about 3500 negatives.
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