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Pro windsurfer Yegor Popretinskiy
Internet card, mailed in 2013 with four stamps, two postmarks, and some white correctional fluid in the address. Grade: 3
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Pavlovsk, The Great Palace, Library of Maria Feodorovna
Mailed in 2013 with three stamps and two very large postmarks. Fully captioned in four languages, which does take some space. Grade: 1
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Map
PostalShop (internet) card, mailed in 2013 with two very large and one smaller stamp, and Par Avion label. Some postal ink transfer on the front. Grade: 2
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Moscow, Metro station “Novoslobodskaya”, 1952
Internet card mailed in 2013 with two stamps, Moscow postmark, and a sticker of a smiley emoticon. Grade: 3
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Matrioshka dolls
PostalShop (internet) card, mailed in 2013 with three stamps and two postmarks. A little postal creasing. Grade: 2
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State L.N. Tolstoy’s Yasnaya Polyana Estate Museum
One is expected to know where this is, and the clue is not in the caption but in the separate line about where and when the card was produced: Moscow, 1988. (That’s just a clue.) But the card was mailed in 2013 from Belarus, with a Belarusian “M” stamp and full Minsk postmark. Grade: 3
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Smolensk, Mound of Immortality Memorial
The caption’s in Russian (more) and English (less) on this nice “local” card mailed in 2013 with two stamps and very large postmark. Grade: 1
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Tula, The Monument to Piter the Great
Captioned in Russian and English, and mailed from Tula with stamp and big postmark in 2013. Grade: 1
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Fairy Tale
Mailed in 2013 with stamp and full postmark, this card’s story is fully explained on the back–but only in Russian. Grade: 1
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Mailbox
PostalShop card, mailed in 2013 with two large stamps and multiple large postmarks. Grade: 1
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I (heart) SPB
SPB = Abbreviated Saint-Petersburg, on a 2012 card mailed in 2014 with two stamps and postmark. The photo is of The Church of the Resurrection of Christ, built between 1883 and 1907 by A. Parland. Grade: 1
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Sochi, Russki Gorki Complex
Two of these 4-1/8″ x 7-5/8″ cards are available, each mailed in 2014. One endured some postal battering along the way; apart from pre-printed “B” postage, there’s an extra New Year stamp, along with pasted address and one more label affixed (Grade: 4, $2). The other has two stamps, Par Avion label, and postmark (Grade: 1, $3).
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Sochi, Volkoiskii Dolmen
Not postally used, and with a message written on the back. Grade: 4
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Bogolyubovo, Church of the Intercession on the Nerl
Unused Soviet-era (1980) card with a tear on the lower right edge. Aging. The card measures 3-1/2″ x 8-1/4″. Grade: 4
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Vyborg Castle Museum
Mailed in 2014, this card has four stamps, three postmarks, and measures 4″ x 8-1/4″. Grade: 1
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Griboedov Canal, the Church on the Spilled Blood
Mailed in 2014 with three stamps and two postmarks. Grade: 1
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Kolomenskoye, Gateway Tower of the St. Nicholas Monastery
Mailed in 2013, with two stamps and postmark. Grade: 1
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Sochi, Adler Arena
Long (4″ x 7-3/4″) card mailed in 2014, with a large stamp adjacent to B&W pre-printed postage, and partial postmark. Address label affixed. Grade: 4
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Moscow State Circus
What a great representation for a circus! Unused ad card. Grade: 1
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Tyumen fort
Mailed in 2014, this 2011 card has four stamps encircling B&W pre-printed postage. Three large postmarks. Very nice example of a contemporary, used postcard. Grade: 1
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The Rostral Columns. 1810
Mailed in 2014, with two stamps and large Saint-Petersburg postmark. Grade: 1
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Minarets
Postal Shop (internet) card mailed in 2014, with two stamps and large Moscow postmark. Grade: 1
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Voronezh
When fully open, this item measures 3-1/2″ x 11″. (It folds in half, deliberately.) The scan shows one side. The other side also has a (different) photo on the right, and Russian-language text on the left. Unused. Grade: 1
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Sheregesh
Sheregesh is a Russian winter sports resort. This card was mailed from not-far-away Novisibirsk in 2014, with four stamps and postmark. Grade: 2
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Siberian Yard (S. Sochivko)
Mailed in 2014, with two stamps and postmark and Air*Mail label. Grade: 2
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Sochi, Смотровая башня на горе Большой Ахун
That means: observation tower on Big Akhun Mountain, on this card mailed from Samara in 2014 with stamp and large postmark and an extra sticker on the back. Grade: 4
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I (heart) Moscow
This card might resonate more if it said Я (сердце) Москва, but it does come from Russia and was mailed from there in 2013 with two stamps and other assorted postmarks and markings. Grade: 2
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Olympic Football 1980
Unused CCCP item in the style of a maximum card, but not quite because the postage is pre-printed. The reverse is blank. Minor foxing. Grade: 2
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Russian alphabet
Clear enough, and with a small English/Russian phrase lesson in the caption as well. Mailed in 2014 with stamp, postmark, and Par Avion chop. Grade: 1
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Kaliningrad, Zoopark
Unused CCCP-era card. Pre-printed postage. Grade: 1
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Airplane on skis
Internet card mailed in 2013 with six stamps (one is large, and unaccountably of a Sunbeam Alpine car) and two large postmarks. Grade: 1
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С Новым Годом! (Happy New Year)
Nice, old-style but 2011 card mailed in 2013 with seven stamps and two postmarks. Grade: 1
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природа севера (Nature of the North)
Mailed in 2014 with two stamps and a large, clear postmark. Grade: 1
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Moscow, The Kremlin at night
That’s what the captions (in four languages) say, though some of these multiple views seem to have been during the day. But we quibble. Mailed in 2013 with stamp and large, full Moscow postmark. Grade: 1
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Penguins (Maximum Card)
CCCP-era (1978) Maximum Card mailed in 2014, from Latvia (not Russia), and with the address label pasted on. Grade: 4
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Vestibule of the metro station Komsomolskaya 1935
Captioned in eight languages, the card may show a 1935 photo but it dates from much later than that, and was mailed in 2014 with two stamps and large Orel postmark. Grade: 1
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Alphabet card “Б”
Now all you need are the other 32 or so. Mailed in 2014, with stamp and most of the postmark. Grade: 1
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Moscow, river scene
Nice photo on a PostalShop card mailed in 2014 with a massive stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Trolley with happy rabbits
Well, what might you call this scene? There’s no caption. This seems to be an internet card but we’ll let it through because it was mailed in 2014 with three stamps and large postmark and is in good condition. Grade: 1
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U.S.S.R. Agricultural Exhibition, Pavilion of Kirghiz S.S.R.
The first in our short series of unused B&W cards from what we believe to be a 1957 show in Moscow. Heavily aged, with bilingual Russian/English captions. Grade: 2