Sebastopol
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20 items; most unused; 1 with RSFSR stamp
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1 item 18/3/1903
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Sestroretsk “Resort”
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2 items; 1 inscribed in French but unposted; beaches
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n.d.
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Shipka
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unused
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n.d.
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Shusha
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unused
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n.d.
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Siberia: gold mining
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unused
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n.d.
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Sizran
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unused
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n.d.
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Smolensk
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unused
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n.d.
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Sochi
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3 items; unused
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2 pre-1917; 1 post-1917
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Sofia
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unused
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n.d.
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Solovetski Monastery
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7 items; 1 posted to Wales from British soldier (1918); 1 with note that “Bols” captured the church
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1914-1918 (& later?)
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Stalinabad, Tadzhikistan
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unused
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Post-1929
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Staraia Russa
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2 items; unused
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n.d.
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Sukhumi
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2 items; unused
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n.d.
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Suuk-Su
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2 items; unused
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n.d.
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Sverdlovsk
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8 items; unused
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Most dated 1927-1930
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Talinn/Reval
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unused
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n.d.
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Tambov
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3 items; unused
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n.d.
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Tashkent
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unused
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n.d.
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Tbilisi/Tiflis
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14 items; most unused; mostly streets & buildings
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Most pre-1917? 1 item 1919
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Tiraspol
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unused
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n.d.
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Tiumen
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Inscribed (English) & posted (Teheran, Persia)
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22/1/1903
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Tobolsk
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unused
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n.d.
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Tomsk
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2 items; unused
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n.d.
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Trans-Baikal railway
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6 items; unused
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n.d.
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Trans-Siberian railway & highway: Taiga village
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6 items; unused
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1905-1915
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Tsaritsyn
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unused
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n.d.
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Tsarskoe Selo
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3 items; 1 inscribed (English) & posted (France)
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27/6/1907
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Turkestan
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unused
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n.d.
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Tver
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unused
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n.d.
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Ufa
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unused
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n.d.
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Ust-Urt
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unused
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n.d.
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Varna
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8 items; unused
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n.d.
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Veliki Ustug
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unused
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n.d.
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Verkhneudinsk
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2 items; unused; 1 with note “1918”
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n.d.
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Viatka
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3 items; unused
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1905-1917
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Vindava/Windau
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unused
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n.d.
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Vladikavkazski: Kadetski Korpus(?)
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3 items; unused
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2 date from 1905
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Vladimir
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unused
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n.d.
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Vladivostok
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11 items; most unused; 2 include Chinese characters; 1 includes view of naval gun on railway; several inscribed in English
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1906-1918
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Volga: scenes
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9 items; several inscribed in French, English, & Russian, posted to England & France
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1906-1912
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Vologda: shop for Philately and Bond collectors of USSR
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unused
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Post-1922
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Yalta
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7 items; most unused
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1910-1929
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Zagorsk
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unused
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n.d.
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Zheleznozovodsk
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Inscription faded/erased
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n.d.
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*loose item
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unused
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n.d.
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Urals: scenes
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11 items; mostly unused
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Several 1905-1907
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Box 3 – Non-Topographical, 1893-1938
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*4 loose items
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unused
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2 date from WWI
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New Russian National Flag, Mamontov, M.
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unused
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1914
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Refugees at Batum (Batumi)
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unused
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1920?
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Collection for Russian soldiers fighting in the trenches
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unused
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20-21/10/1916
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Portrait of Nicholas II
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photograph
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20/5/1909
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“Firemen for the Soldiers”, Moscow
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Includes lyrics for a song/poem by A. Efimova, dedicated to the valiant Moscow firemen
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5-6/12/1915
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“What are we fighting for?”
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2 items; unused; statistics (pie chart & bar graph)
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1914
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5½% War Loan
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6 items; encouraging people to take out loans to aid the war effort; file includes note with caption translations
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1916
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British War Posters Exhibition
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4 items; British war posters rendered into Russian postcards; unused
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18/4/1916
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Kiev, with Soviet “sticker” on reverse
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Postcard features silhouette drawing of 1914 cavalry charge; stamp on the back is from the All-Russian Committee of aid for the sick and wounded of the Red Army and invalid soldiers
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1914 & post-1918
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Nicholas II Abdication Decree
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unused
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3/3/1917
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May Day in Petrograd
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4 items; unused; photographs of the crowded streets, banners
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1917
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Days of Revolution on Nevsky Prospekt
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Photograph of crowds
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1917
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Odessa, 1903: collaged newspaper & photo
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unused
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n.d.
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Odessa: Passazh
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unused
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Pre-1904
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Novorossisk cement works
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unused
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Pre-1904
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Typesetting room in first model printing house, Moscow
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unused; celebrating 5 year anniversary?
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1924
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Moscow, 1905: destroyed buildings
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5 items; unused
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n.d.
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Moscow, 1905: barricades
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6 items; unused
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n.d.
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Lansere, E.
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2 items; 1 inscribed (Russian)
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1904 & 1910?
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Types of Siberia
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2 items; unused
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1 dates from 1915
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Types of Buryatia
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3 items; 1 inscribed (English) & posted (France)
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1 dates from 9/1/1905
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St. Petersburg
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unused
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Pre-1904
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Russo-Japanese War
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3 items; 2 depict the bloodthirstiness of Japan
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1904
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“1903 Bicentenary charity (1753 anniv)”
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St. Petersburg; unused
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1903
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Economic-Social Statistics
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4 items; unused
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Pre-1914
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“Naughty” Comic cards
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2 items; unused
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Pre-1917
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Bilibin, I.
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5 items; unused; mostly landscape paintings; one portrait of a woman
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1901 & 1904
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Folklorique-Neorussian, various artists
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2 items; unused
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n.d.
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Love Story: Monday to Sunday by Sokolov
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7 items; unused
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n.d.
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unlabelled
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Triple-faced portrait with caption: “Precautions lead to security. Therefore do not confide in one another.” (Осторожность рождает безопасность. Поэтому друг другу не доверяем.)
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WWI?
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unlabelled
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3 items; reproductions of images of damage to Moscow buildings during the October Revolution
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1917
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Balagan on Devichy pole
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Reproduction; lengthy caption on reverse
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n.d.
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*2 loose items
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Reproduction photographs of Pavlograd
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n.d.
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Photocopy of Published Article
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“Les cartes postales commemoratives de l’epoque Brejnevienne” (“The commemorative postcards of the Brezhnev era”), by de Perthuis, Bruno
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n.d.
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Newspaper Article
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Review of Tom Phillips’s The Postcard Century, Nigel Barley in The Times Higher
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6/4/2001
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Article
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“The Post in Old Russia” by A.H. Wortman
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n.d.
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Newspaper Article
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“Oldest picture postcard in the world…” by Arifa Akhbar in The Independent
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9/3/2002
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unlabelled
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Reproduction postcard (from the British Library) of Rodchenko’s cover for I. G. Ehrenburg’s Materialization of the Fantastic
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1998 (1927)
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unlabelled
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Information sheet & business cards from an art gallery on the English Embankment, St. Petersburg
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1990s?
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Newspaper Article
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“Having a Great Time in Edwardian Britain”, Madeleine Marsh on postcard collecting in Independent on Sunday
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9/11/1997
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Political caricatures by TS or ST (non-party)
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7 items; unused; captions in French and Russian; caricatures of bureaucrats, hooligan, newspaper boy, worker, beggars
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1902-1903?
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Romantic art-nouveau greeting
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unused
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1903-04?
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Their Imperial Highnesses leave Arzamas for Sarov
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unused
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1903?
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Bicentenary of St. Petersburg: Happy New Year
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Inscribed (Russian) & posted (Manchester)
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1903
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Talashkino
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unused
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Pre-1904
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Meterlinck’s ‘Blue Bird’
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unused
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1905
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Sokolov: Folk Tales, various
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6 items; unused
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Pre-1904?
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Sokolov: 1905 Revolutionaries
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3 items; unused
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1905
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Smolny Institute as School
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2 items; inscribed (Russian) & posted; photographs of women attending class
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1911
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Pre-Revolutionary Doss-House
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unused
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Pre-1917
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Singer sewing machines advert
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2 items; second item features drawing of children & Easter eggs?
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n.d.
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Br. G. & A. Valin, Advert (for what?)
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Inscribed (Russian)
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n.d.
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Pre-Revolutionary Christmas Cards
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4 items; 1 inscribed (Russian)
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Pre-1917
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Children as Political: odds
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2 items; unused
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1905-6?
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Political Parties as children (Anarkhisti etc.) by ‘T’
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5 items; unused; includes Bolsheviks & Mensheviks, Anarchists, Moderates, Social-Democrats, and Kadet (Constitutional Democrat)
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1905-6?
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“‘Elections’ pick out [lice]…”
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unused
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1905-6
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Kremlin: receipt of donations
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Inscribed (Esperanto) & posted (Britain)
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3/4/1909
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“Hands Up!”
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Inscribed (German) & posted; features photograph of 2 men being arrested?
|
n.d.
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Baikal Railway tunnelling
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unused
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Post-1904
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Children’s Themes
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2 items; unused
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Pre-1917
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Illustrations to Ershov’s fables
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2 items; unused
|
n.d.
|
Romantic card “It’s all over” (German?)
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photograph
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Post-1904
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Moor: cartoon of L. M. Leonidov
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Note: cf. 119 in bk
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1910?
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Solomko, S.
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2 items; unused
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Pre-1917
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Military Life: various
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5 items; unused; photographs
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Pre-1917; 1 item 1903
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Kandaurov illustration to Krylov fable
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Bk no. 102
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1908
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Easter cards
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5 items; all inscribed, several to Dr. Cooke
|
1911-1990s
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Shorthand signs
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By Khlebnikov
|
1908
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St. Petersburg Aviation club: various
|
2 items; unused
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1 item 1910
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Russian Village, Olympia exhibition
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unused
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1913
|
Moscow of the Future
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Exhibition card? Lengthy caption on reverse; note in file with translation
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1913
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Kiev All-Russian Exhibition
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4 items; unused
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1913
|
300th Anniversary of the Romanovs
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2 items; unused
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1913
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Museum of Work, St. Petersburg
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unused
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19/2/1921
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Sokol Gymnastics Society
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2 items
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1913
|
Skobelev Committee: Decree by Nicholas II, 1914
|
Inscribed (Latin) but unposted
|
24/12/1916
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“To Alsace!”
|
unused
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WWI
|
Unhappy Kaiser: various
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unused
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1914
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Patriotic Nationalist with allies
|
3 items; 1 produced in Britain, depiction of Ally Russia as a woman
|
WWI
|
Bulgaria argues with Franz-Ferdinand
|
unused
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WWI
|
Germans as “naughty children”
|
2 items; unused
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WWI
|
Foreign Ambassadors to troops
|
5 items; unused
|
WWI
|
Greeting card of Society for Assisting the Poor
|
unused
|
1914
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“International game of tops”
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unused; eve of war?
|
1914
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Riga: for Red Cross
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unused
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1915
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Poster for collection for soldiers at the front and their children
|
unused
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26/3/1915
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Tsar talks to lower ranks
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Photograph; unused
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1916
|
UK cards: the Allies United!
|
2 items; one inscribed (English) but unposted
|
WWI
|
Ships of the Imperial Navy
|
6 items; unused; 4 are British-made
|
WWI?
|
Flags of the Allies: the Russian Flags
|
British-made; inscribed (English) & posted (Ireland)
|
1915
|
Russian flag, Paris
|
French-made; unused
|
WWI
|
‘Sappering Work’ charity card
|
Inscribed (Russian) & posted
|
2/7/1916
|
“Sell grain to buy freedom loan”
|
2 items; unused; note from CC: no. 277 in my book
|
1917
|
Revolution in Vladivostok
|
Chinese characters; unused
|
c. 1917?
|
Burial of victims of the February Revolution
|
2 items; unused
|
3/1917
|
Medical Camp at Mineralnyi Vody Station
|
unused
|
1917
|
Skazka “Izba on hen’s legs”
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Illustration of Baba Yaga & her house
|
1/1917
|
Greetings card from Empress’s Depot for War Effort
|
Religious painting on reverse; inscribed in Russian
|
16/5/1917
|
“Day of Revolution”: troops on Liteinyi prospekt
|
unused
|
Oct? 1917
|
Peace demonstration on Field of Mars
|
Card dated, but no inscription (28/3/1919)
|
17/12/1917
|
Sailors “For Lenin and full victory over Wilhelm”
|
unused
|
1917-1918?
|
Museum of Monuments of Art and Antiquity, Petrograd
|
3 items; Photographs of “ethnic examples”
|
1919
|
Bolshevik prisoners on ship at Batoum (Batumi)
|
French-made; photograph; inscribed (English) possibly by British soldier, but unposted
|
8/5/1920
|
Princess Galitzine boarding the Royal Sovereign at Principo
|
British-made; photograph; inscribed (English) but unposted
|
31/7/1920
|
Civil War? Starving Gentlewoman
|
Photograph with English caption
|
1919-1922?
|
Buryshkin: “10th Anniversary” of the Revolution at Narva Gates
|
unused
|
1927
|
Kharkov: Ukrainian Government at May Day parade in the 3rd year of the First Five Year Plan
|
Caption in English, German, & Russian on reverse; unused
|
1931
|
“Lenin at the Helm” painting, Museum of Revolution
|
Caption on reverse in several languages of the Union
|
1931
|
Narva Gates and New Buildings
|
Photograph; unused
|
1932
|
Two Soldiers
|
photograph
|
18/11/1935
|
New Soviet Life of the 1930s
|
12 items; mostly photographs; life at work and during leisure time; unused
|
1931-1937
|
Paris Exhibition: Soviet Pavilion
|
3 items; Paris-made; unused; photographs
|
1937
|
20 Years of the Red Army and Navy
|
unused
|
1938
|
unlabelled
|
4 items; duplicates; custom bookplates for F. Shekhtel’, artist and architect
|
n.d.
|
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