2007 Russia ...The 50th anniversary of "Plesetsk" cosmodrome

Russia fauna

2004 Russia Amber Room

The Amber Room (In English sometimes known as Amber Chamber, Russian: Янтарная комната Yantarnaya komnata, German: Bernsteinzimmer) in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg is a complete chamber decoration of amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors. Due to its singular beauty, it was sometimes dubbed the "Eighth Wonder of the World".

Before it was lost, the original Amber Room represented a joint effort of German and Russian craftsmen. Construction of the Amber Room began in 1701 to 1709 inPrussia. The room was designed by German baroque sculptor Andreas Schlüter and constructed by the Danish amber craftsman Gottfried Wolfram and remained atCharlottenburg Palace until 1716 when it was given by Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I to his then ally, Tsar Peter the Great of the Russian Empire. In Russia it was expanded and after several renovations, it covered more than 55 square meters and contained over six tons of amber. The Amber Room was looted during World War II by Nazi Germany and brought to Königsberg. Knowledge of its whereabouts was lost in the chaos at the end of the war.

In 1979 efforts began to rebuild the Amber room at Tsarskoye Selo. In 2003, after decades of work by Russian craftsmen, financed by donations from Germany, the reconstructed Amber Room was inaugurated in the Catherine Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2009 Russia N.V. Gogol

Nikolay Vasilevich Gogol (1809-1852) is the great Russian prose writer, playwright, critic who opened new epoch in Russian literature in due time. He opened new literary epoch in Russia. Everything in creativity of writer distinguished him from predecessors: singularity of the maintenance, brightness of types, lambent humour and, of course, his amazing language – laconic and well-aimed. "Auditor", «Dead souls», "Viy", «Evenings on a farm near Dikanka» and Gogol's other products are deeply poetical and original. «Lie in art, lie in science and lie in life, - wrote Nikolay Vasilevich in declining years, - were always both my enemies, and my torturers: everywhere I pursued them, and everywhere they pursued me». Souvenir sheet represents N.V.Gogol's portrait of F.A.Moller's brush (1840th) and a still-life, symbolizing creative nature of writer.

Russian Retro Postcards

2011 Russia ....SOCHI-2014 Olympic Games

2011 Russia...Queen Ekaterrina

2011 Russia ...Kaluga region

2011 Russia ...Omsk region

2005 Russia...Ded Moroz`s postage stamp.

The prototype of the modern Father Frost, the severe God of winter, ruling from November till March, the athlete of unprecedented strength, who was called Hard Frost, Frost-Red(Blue) Nose or Studenets(Severe cold) was far from being kind and didn’t give presents to anybody. He walked with stick and chained rivers with iron chains. Icicles were his tears and snow clouds were his hair. People were afraid of him and worshiped him. According to legend a wicked old woman Zima(winter) – from the ancient “hima” that means “witch doctor”, “sorcerer”, “wasting decease”- was his wife. They were in charge of all winter disasters. Snowstorms, blizzards, winds and wolves were considered to be their true servants. In order to insinuate the Old Man on the Eve of Christmas or of the New Year the oldest person in the family took a spoonful of boiled rice with raising and honey, went to the threshold of the outer entrance hall and invited: “Moroz, Moroz! Come to eat our kissel! Don’t beat our oats, hammer in the earth linen and hemp!”

2006 Russia...The 150th anniversary of the Baltic factory.

2006 Russia....The World nature heritage in Russia. The West Caucasus.

2006 Russia...Ded Moroz`s postage stamp.

Ded Moroz's mail A drawing of Maria Lakeeva, a 16 years old winner of the All-Russian contest "The postal stamp of Ded Moroz" in the nomination "Youth works", is depicted at the stamp.

2006 Russia ...The national atlas of Russia.

The national atlas of Russia – is the state encyclopedic issue, created for the first time in the history of the country and aimed at giving the integral idea of nature, the population, the economy, the ecology, the history and the culture of Russia. The Atlas consists of 4 volumes: "The general characteristics of the territory", "Nature. Ecology", "Population. Economy", "History. Culture". Every volume, being consistent part of the National Atlas of Russia, presents at the same time an independent cartographic work, having its own informational and cognitive value.

2004 Russia...The 200th birth anniversary of M.I.Glinka, a composer.

M.I.Glinka (1804-1857) was a composer and the originator of Russian classical music. He worked in almost all musical genres, in opera mostly. The stamps feature two Glinka's operas, "Life for the Tsar" and "Ruslan and Ludmila". These were the first ones in the classical period of the Russian opera. Two major branches of opera - national musical drama and fairy-tale opera - originate form these two operas. The coupon features facsimile of M.I.Glinka: a hymn "Slav'sya!" from the opera "Life for the Tsar".

2004 Russia ....The patriotic subject in modern painting.

The patriotic subject in modern painting.

2004 Russia ....fauna ...WWF

Wolverine is a predatory mammal of the weasel family, found in the taiga and the forest-tundra of Eurasia and the North America, a solitary animal. When preying, it steals food supplies of hunters and robs traps quite often.

2002 Russia...The History of Russia. Alexander I (1777-1825).

The Patriotic War of 1812 against the aggression of Napoleon stopped in 1814 when Paris was taken and the Empire of Napoleon I tumbled.

2002 Russia...The History of Russia. Alexander I (1777-1825).

N.M.Karamzin (1776-1826), a historian, a writer, the honorary member of the Academy of Sciences in St.Petersburg, the creator of "The History of State of Russia" and the founder of Russian sentimentalism.

2002 Russia...The History of Russia. Alexander I (1777-1825).

Graf M.M.Speransky (1772-1839), a politician. Since 1808 - the primal councillor of Alexander I, the author of the political reformation plans, took the lead in creating the National Council.