The Russian Black Sea Coast in 1905
Here I present a journey along part of the Black Sea Coast taken by the great pioneering photographer, Sergeii Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in 1905. The second part of his journey took him into the Caucasus & I will show this later. His journey took him from the fashionable town of Sochi & Gagra to the botanical gardens of Sukhumi. Continuing south he visited the Novyi Afon Monastery and the tea plantations of Chakvi, aand finally the princely town of Borzhom, home of one of the Tsar's uncles.
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I think these were specially grown in the botanical garden, but the climate here is warm during the summer, so is ideal for such plants. Nigel
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I didn't know that banana trees and rice plants can grow overthere, it is surprising to me! Thank you.
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@rhala1960 I think it would be very different, if for nothing else, the traffic!! N
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I wonder what the same picture would have told us today. Thanks
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