پس از انتشار عکس های رنگی از لئو تولستوی، سرگی میخاییلوف، عکاس روس به نامی مشهور تبدیل شد.
وی در سال 1863 در روسیه به دنیا آمد و در سال 1944 میلادی در پاریس درگذشت. او از نخستین کسانی بود که عکاسی رنگی را تجربه کرد.

سرگی میخاییلوف، پیش از هر چیز یک شیمیدان بود. آشنایی وی با علم شیمی سرآغاز عکس هایی رنگی بود که از او بجا مانده است.

وی با استفاده از سه دوربین عکاسی سیاه و سفید و سه فیلتر آبی، قرمز و سبز و نمایش همزمان آنها موفق شد تا نخستین عکس های رنگی را منتشر کند.

او تصاویر منحصر به فردی از دوران پیش از انقلاب روسیه و حکومت تزارها ثبت کرده است.
این عکس ها را می توانید از طریق لینک زیر ببینید:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/prok
'Armenian women (Catholics) in customary dress', taken
between 1905 and 1915. [Artvin] - Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

'Armenian women in holiday
attire', taken between 1905 and 1915. [Artvin] - Sergei Mikhailovich
Prokudin-Gorskii

'Austrian prisoners of war near
a barrack', 1915. [near Kiappeselga] - Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

'Bashkir woman in a folk costume', 1910 - Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

'Church of Saint John the
Precursor on Malyshevaia Hill', 1909. [Staraia Ladoga, Russian Empire] -
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

'Crew of the steamship
"Sheksna" of the M.P.S.' (Ministry of Communication and Transportation), 1909.
[Russian Empire] - Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

'Dagestani types', taken
between 1905 and 1915. - Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

'Entrance into the yard of the
Church of Saint George', 1909 [Staraia Ladoga, Russian Empire] - Sergei
Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

'Georgian woman', taken
between 1905 and 1915 - Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

'On the handcar outside
Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway', 1915 - Sergei Mikhailovich
Prokudin-Gorskii

'Kurd woman with children',
taken between 1905 and 1915. [Artvin] - Sergei Mikhailovich
Prokudin-Gorskii

'Man with camel loaded with
packs', taken between 1905 and 1915 - Sergei Mikhailovich
Prokudin-Gorskii

'Mugan. Settler's family',
taken between 1905 and 1915. [Settlement of Grafovka] - Sergei
Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

'Mullahs in mosque', taken
between 1905 and 1915. [Aziziia, Batumi] - Sergei Mikhailovich
Prokudin-Gorskii

'Old cross in the Assumption
Monastery for women', 1909. [Staraia Ladoga, Russian Empire] - Sergei
Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

'Pinkhus Karlinskii', 84 years
old. Taken in 1909 after he had done 66 years of service as supervisor of
Chernigov floodgate. [Russian Empire] - Sergei Mikhailovich
Prokudin-Gorskii

'Nikolaevskii Cathedral from
the left bank of the Western Dvina', 1912. [Polotsk] - Sergei
Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

'Russian children sitting on
the side of a hill near a church and bell tower in the countryside near White
Lake, in the north of European Russia', 1909 - Sergei Mikhailovich
Prokudin-Gorskii
