Cool Robe

[Subdeacon Joe]

An Orthodox priest in a deerskin at Gizhiga, Russia, 1901

 

 

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

Cool Shootin' iron.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

It’s near the Pacific Ocean.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizhiga

[Pat Riot]

I didn’t realize the Russians had color film cameras back in 1901. 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said:

I didn’t realize the Russians had color film cameras back in 1901. 

If you remember Ensign Chekhov, the Russians invented just about everything.

[Subdeacon Joe]

5 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said:

I didn’t realize the Russians had color film cameras back in 1901. 

 

https://www.boredpanda.com/first-color-photos-vintage-old-autochrome-lumiere-auguste-louis/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

 

I'll have to dig around, but there is a collection of a dozen or so color photos from Russia taken around that time.

[Subdeacon Joe]

https://www.loc.gov/collections/prokudin-gorskii/articles-and-essays/russia-in-color-photographs-1905-1914/

[J-BAR #18287]

What are the things hanging around him? Pelts of some kind?

[Subdeacon Joe]

3 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

What are the things hanging around him? Pelts of some kind?

 

 

I think it's fish being dried. 

[Rye Miles #13621]

23 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

What are the things hanging around him? Pelts of some kind?

Covid masks!

[Pat Riot]

2 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

https://www.boredpanda.com/first-color-photos-vintage-old-autochrome-lumiere-auguste-louis/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

 

I'll have to dig around, but there is a collection of a dozen or so color photos from Russia taken around that time.

Check this out. It seems I was mistaken. Fascinating!

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/early-color-photography-russia

[Subdeacon Joe]

12 minutes ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said:

Check this out. It seems I was mistaken. Fascinating!

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/early-color-photography-russia

 

 

YEAH!  That is the page I was thinking of.  Thanks.  

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

1 hour ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

What are the things hanging around him? Pelts of some kind?

Their diet was mostly fish.

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

Now that's my kind of a priest!

[Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme]

And his whiskers match nicely.