The Thousandth Year of the Russian Empire. Share full article. Jan. 16, 1862. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from January 16, 1862, Page 6 Buy Reprints.

Between 1909 and 1912 and again in 1915, Prokhudin-Gorskii won the support of Tsar Nicholas II to undertake an ambitious project to document the people and places of the Russian Empire.