Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Author’s Note ix
5. Introduction. An Unsentimental Journey 1
6. Part I. Documenting Cultural Legacies of an Empire
7. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky: Photographer of an Empire 13
8. The Intertwining Fates of Two Collections 27
9. Part II. Journeys
10. One. The Ancient Heartland 37
11. Two. The West: From Smolensk Southward to Ryazan 101
12. Three. The Northwest: From Lake Ladoga to the Volga Basin 167
13. Four. The Upper Volga: From the Valdai Heights to Torzhok 225
14. Five. The Volga from Uglich to Yurevets 277
15. Six. From the Ural Mountains into Siberia 351
16. Seven. Central Asia—Turkestan 413
17. Eight. North to the Solovetsky Islands 473
18. Conclusion. Above the Abyss: A Reflection on Photography as an Instrument of Memory 497
19. Index 507