Drip-drop

I was astonished, when received this card! I've never seen such postcards, have you? It's triple, so one side was folded and glued on a special glue. There is also 4th image, which isn't seen from this angle.

from Nataliamarsha

Unusual reprint

This Moscow-in-future reprint postcard can be found only in a chocolate box of Einem manufacturer. These postcards illustrate a painters' of the beginning of XX notion how Moscow would look like in a hundred years. The real pictures can be found in a museum - if I'm not mistaken in the Moscow history museum. Once I saw them, though it was many years ago and I remember little, only the impression of the pictures - it was so unusual to see such pictures now, when the time they show has already come )))

If you would like one you can ask me for :))

Mozart in Prague

I was so happy to receive this card with Mozart - it was the first one about him. W.A.Mozart is actually my favourite composer.

Nataliamarsha

Nostalgic card

Oh, this card reminds me of a happy childhood :)
This is one of the illustrations to Charles Perrault tales by a Russian painter Boris Dekhterev.
I have this old book (edition 1960) and when I was a little girl I loved reading it and watching the pictures. They were so nice and full that it seemed to having watched the whole cartoon, but not just reading.

julasha

Russian Emperors

I've received a number of emperor's portraits, that's why decided to combine them in one post.

Alexander II (Alexander the Liberator ) (1818-1881)

He was a liberal emperor, who accomplished the Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia - in my opinion, one of the greatest reforms in the history of Russia. He is also know as to have been assassinated. That was a very unusual, even an incredible thing, because in the course of Russian history Tsars and Emperors were regarded as very reliable persons, given to rule the state by the God and even were sometimes called as "Tsar-father".

Alexander III (1845-1894)

A son of Alexander II. He was the next emperor after his father.

From History lessons I remember he was a very strong man. Once the Imperial train got into an accident, due to the crash a carriage roof collapsed and Alexander III had to hold its remains till the children ran out of the carriage. However this situation influenced his health and he died soon after it.

Nicholas II (1868-1918)

The last Russian emperor. So he is one of the most well-know, talked about emperors of all Russian emperors.
By a belief he knew the date of his death (which also was the year of the falling of emperor power in Russia), which had been predicted 100 years before it (approx. in 1817-18) to his ancestor Alexander I. That emperor ordered to conserve the prediction and to open it only in 100 years.

Birthday cards

This post would be devoted to my received postcards and cards to my birthday - April, 11 - on Birthday RRs. It happened that mostly they are from Russia.

This birthday was the most card birthday of all! :)

from Mirrora

tropiki

from Vakhnyuk

Briana_Serpent

Solnivko

from Lysiandra

Integra-Hellsing

from my sister

from elyara

from granny

from postcrosser2011

Vitaljevna

z Polski

Te kartki przyszły z Polski

Wszystki kartki są piękną!

from anulenka

Mirin - RU tag

Ata_ - wspaniała kartka!

romanek

wymiana z mevo - uwielbiam taki mapy))

margaretka02

edtta

AgnieszkaPL

Jancio

likevel

likaa - official forum, Russian branch

A postcard highlight

At last it has happened!

Just the other day I received a wonderful airy light ship from Finland. Its journey took 2 months! It was indeed worth waiting for !

I love such images of ships. They remind me something, though I can't say what - childhood or an old tale or something else.

Its size isn't large at all, but it's elegant.

This picture was sent by Tarja (Vehkotar), I wrote to her and offered a swap, so we succeded!

She told me the history of the ship:

"The ship is "Suomen Joutsen" (Swan of Finland in English) and it´s a three-mast, steel hull, full rigged ship, built in 1902 in St. Nazaire, France, and she served in the trade between Atlantic and Pacific ports. Government of Finland bought it in 1930 for Finnish Navy to be a training ship. From 1956 she was a stationary Seamen's School for the Finnish Merchant Navy. Since 1991, she has been a museum ship owned by City of Turku. The artist is from Turku, Håkan Sjöström, who is one of the foremost marine painters in Scandinavia today."

Tarja also put WWF stickers - they are wonderful and I've never seen such ))

(Wow! What a size!)

And that is the stamp

Thank you, Tarja, for your magnificent card!