The latest Eastern – European cold snap has brought delayed trains and flights, closed roads and houses buried under several feet of snow. However, despite all those bad things, the cold also brought some amazing photo opportunities. And the best one is the recently frozen Black Sea. The fairytale-like photos made the news around the…

Photos they did have 100 years ago in Russia too. But to manage to see ordinary peasants’ cheeks blush and how their clothes were really so colourful, it makes you realize how flawed our vision of the past has become due to the limitations of black & white technology. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944), a chemist, but…