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The idea worked well and was extended throughout Russia on December 1, 1848. Local postal systems used stamps referred to as Zemstvo stamps, from the term for local government begun under Alexander II in 1864. [ 1] Russian Post is a founding member of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) created in 1874.
Website. British Society of Russian Philately. The cover of part 6 of Stamps of the Russian Empire used abroad by Tchilinghirian & Stephen. The British Society of Russian Philately is a philatelic society dedicated to the study of postage stamps and postal history of Russia and Russian-related countries.
In 1932, the All-Soviet Philatelic Exhibition was organized in Moscow. On that occasion, a souvenir sheet of four stamps known as Personalised Kartonka was produced on thick card, with three-line overprint "To the best shock worker of the All Russian Philatelic Society – President of the Moscow Philatelic Organization E.M. Nurk". It is ...
Forgeries of Russian stamps can be divided into the following categories: [citation needed] Forgeries of a basic stamp. These are not so common. Examples include François Fournier's forgeries of the 3.50R and 7R high value stamps "without thunderbolts" and the Rostov famine issue of the early 1920s. Some issues of the Civil War have also been ...
Definitive stamps of Russia. Stamp of the RSFSR 3rd definitive issue, 1922, bearing the communist slogan "Workers of the world, unite!" Definitive stamps of Russia are the regular postage stamp issues produced in the Russian Empire and RSFSR between 1857 and 1923, and in the Russian Federation since 1992.
After the October Revolution, stamp collectors managed to obtain legalisation of philately in Soviet Russia. The new magazine, Russian Magazine of Collectors and Correspondents ( Russian : Российский журнал коллекционеров и корреспондентов ), established in 1916 and issued till July 1918, promoted ...
Philatelic literature such as The Postal History and Stamps of Tuva by S.M. Blekhman also confirms non-philatelic commercial use of the stamps. Notwithstanding their questionable origins, these exotic stamps were popular with young collectors during the middle of the twentieth century.
The design of these stamps consisted of a square border with the name MOUNT ATHOS at the bottom in English, the left in Russian and on the right in Greek. At the top was inscribed THEOCRACY. The denomination appeared at each corner with the English in the lower corners, Greek in the top left and Russian in the top right.