Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts

16 March 2011

"A seller of kerchiefs" (from the series "Russian types").
Publishing house of P. Von Girgenson. 1900s.
Fantastic postcard from Nadya (Russia).
Moscow (two upper) and Nizhny Novgorod Kremlins.

15 February 2011

Nice retro styled postcard from Irina (Moskow, Russia). Kremlin, Tsarskaya Square.
Stamps are gorgeous!

1 February 2011

A photo with the monument of wooden architecture in Tomsk (Russia). Came as a postcard from Natalia.
Ryazan Kremlin

2 November 2010

Monument to Peter the Great on the Decembrists Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Arrived from Olga.
Stamps with Pskov Kremlin.

9 October 2010

Crimean Bridge (Krymsky Most) in Mockow, Russia. A postcard from Kirill. He plays in the band and loves books by J.S.Foer.

Wiki says:
Krymsky Bridge or Crimean Bridge is a steel suspension bridge in Moscow popularly known as a favourite place for suicides. The bridge spans the Moskva River 1,800 meters south-west from the Kremlin and carries the Garden Ring across the river. The bridge links the Crimean Square to the north with Krymsky Val street to the south. The nearby Moscow Metro stations are Park Kultury and Oktyabrskaya.
The existing bridge was completed on May 1, 1938, as part of Stalin's ambitious reconstruction of downtown Moscow. Designed by engineer V. P. Konstantinov and architect A. V. Vlasov, it is the fourth bridge on this site and the only suspension bridge in all of Moscow.

22 September 2010

Wonderful postcard with the view of Woolworth and Municipal Buildings from Brooklyn Bridge, New York. I received it  from Katya and Anton, a couple from Moscow Region (Russia).
The stamp with the Ryazan Kremlin.

1 August 2010

The cathedral of Epiphany in Yelokhovo (Moskow, Russia). Sent by Assja.

Wiki says:
The Epiphany Cathedral at Yelokhovo, Moscow, is the vicarial church of the Moscow Patriarchs. The surviving building was designed and built by Yevgraph Tyurin in 1837–1845.
The original church in the village of Yelokhovo near Moscow was built in 1722-31 for Tsarevna Praskovia Ivanovna. It was there that Alexander Pushkin was baptised in 1799. In 1790 a refectory with a four-tier belfry was built.
The present structure was erected in 1837-1845 to a Neoclassical design by Yevgraph Tyurin. The architecture is typical for the late Empire style, with some elements of European eclectics. The riotous opulence of the interior decoration is due to a restoration undertaken in 1912.
The main altar is devoted to Holy Epiphany, the Baptism of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The cathedral has two side-chapels: the left one of St. Nicolas, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, the Miracle Worker, and the right one of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin.
Most venerated shrines of the cathedral are the relics of St. Aleksiy of Moscow, and the miraculous Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.

Stamps with Novgorod Kremlin and Moscow Kremlin.

21 June 2010

I received this vintage style postcard from Xenia (Moskow, Russia).
The stamps are amazing! The rightmost depicts Yaroslav the Wise - the Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev. During his lengthy reign Kievan Rus' reached the zenith of it's cultural flowering and military power.