Cezar Nicolescu put me onto this...
So this picture was taken in 1911, YES 1911!!!!! I know, color photography was not available until the mid 20th century, but some lone Russian genius discovered to record scenes in full color. Tragically, he just did not know how to save them on a physical medium such as paper. The images he captured could only be viewed by projecting them onto a surface temporarily.
The Czar was so impressed with this mans skill that he funded an expedition by train to transport him around Russia from 1905-1914, so that he could document the vernacular.
Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky posting up by a river for his self portrait (1912).click images for a ridiculous amount of detail.
The images were taken by three monochrome cameras, through three colored filters. Full color images were reconstructed by overlaying the three filtered projections.
Kama River, 1910.The Library of Congress got a hold of these and is going through the process of projecting and permanently recording the images that were taken. More can be found
here...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky
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