Postcards

Portraits of actors and actresses, scenes from operas, dramas, movies, etc.

Female images, including the nude ones

An authorial postcard is a postcard with a painting created by the artist directly for it. The subjects of the authorial cards are diverse: genre and historical scenes, cityscapes and nature, historical, literary, and theatrical characters, woman and fashion.

Urban views, or postcards with views of cities, memorial sites, attractions constitute a large part of the collection. Cityscape card is not only a cultural monument, but also a source of knowledge about the past. To get an idea of many not existing or distorted monuments of architecture, to understand how whole ensembles of squares and streets at one time or another looked like one can only ... ↓ out of a postcard very often. Urban views were based on photos whose authors are not always known. In particular this applies to the works of the first half of XX century which are of special importance for us. However we can identify some names, such as: S.M.Prokudin-Gorsky, D.Markov, A.N.Pavlovich, V.Svetlichnyi, etc. Domestic cityscape postcards depicted not only the inner cities with ceremonial squares, ancient temples and palaces, but also the suburbs and individual buildings, including industrial ones. Even the most remote areas of the Russian Empire were of interest for photographers. ↑

Documentary postcard – a postcard with images of important historical events, ceremonies, political and artistic events, photos from places of natural disasters, military campaigns and battles. Documentary postcards were especially popular in the difficult war and revolutionary years. So, during the Russo-Japanese War photographers of the Community of Saint Eugenia made a lot of pictures of ... ↓ the equipment of the army, scenes of battles, soldiers, etc. During the revolution and the first years of Soviet power photo-postcards with scenes of street fights, various festivities and ceremonies — funerals, anniversaries, etc. — were actively published ↑

Illustrations are the cards with illustrations to the works of writers, poets, playwrights, to fairy tales, Russian epics and songs. The Community of St. Eugenia published a series of postcards with illustrations for the works of the poet in honor of the centenary of Alexander Pushkin’s burth. The artists who worked for it were N.N Karazin, E.M.Boehm, M.A.Zichy, V.M.Vasnetsov, etc. The theme ... ↓ of Pushkin's fairy tales in the early 1900s was developed in the works of B.V.Zworykin. For the publisher "Richard" A.F.Afanasiev executed a series of drawings for P.P.Yershov’s tale "The Humpbacked Horse". Later the works began to appeare, the themes for which were taken directly from Russian folklore. The postcards with the drawings of V.M.Vasnetsov "The Guslar" and "Kupava" were published. S.S.Solomko created many pictures for the postcards with female images from Russian fairy tales. Postcards by E.M.Boehm present illustrations of national proverbs and sayings. V.A.Taburin creates a series of postcards "Russian Proverbs in persons". During the first Russian revolution postcards with illustrations and texts of the revolutionary songs "The Internationale", "Working Marseillaise", "The Warsaw lady" were published . In the second half of XX century the postcards with the Soviet songs were performed in the “lubok” style of Palekh or Mstera. The editions with illustrations for children's books are of particular interest. ↑

Cards with different types of troops

Images of animals and plants in wild nature and in zoos, botanical gardens

A large series of open letters with the maps of provinces and regions of the Russian Empire, issued by the Head Office of Publications "Russia" (St. Petersburg), appears to be a perfect educational material for the study of our country.

In addition to the map the coat of arms of the province was depicted together with the brief statistical information about the ... ↓ population and geography of the province, which was preceded at the reverse side by the words of N.V. Gogol: "The ignorance of Russia itself is great" and Strindberg's words: "Know your Homeland".

It should be noted that these postcards were published at the expense of H.E.M Grand Duke Mihail Alexandrovich, the younger brother of the Emperor Nicholas II. ↑

Panoramic postcard – a postcard with the image of the terrain, characterized by wide viewing angle. Panoramic postcards can be of the enlarged horizontally size or consist of several cards in conventional format.

Portraits of the prominent statesmen, public and cultural figures, military leaders, scientists and others

The most common type of cards – greeting ones, dedicated to some holiday. In pre-revolutionary Russia, for example, the postcards — greetings for Christmas, Easter, Saint's Day, more rarely for New Year — were most popular. Greeting cards were issued by almost all publishers. Many open letters were imported from Europe, which created more competition and forced publishers to find new ... ↓ subjects. Among the common attributes of greeting cards the most common were images of angels, children, animals, girls with flowers, churches, various still lifes, scenes from Russian life. ↑

Promotional postcards, posters, cartoons

Postcards, advertising firms or goods as well as cards, announcing cultural events

Postcards with reproductions of the works of fine art

Gift cards ("Gruss aus...", "Greetings from...", "Souvenir de...") – are cards "in memory" associated with the memories of someone or something and containing the appropriate treatment. These cards are specially created artistic compositions using hand-drawn or photographic images of a variety of attractions, famous places, etc. This series of ... ↓ postcards was extremely popular at the turn of XIX and XX centuries. ↑

Postcards with the images of the means of transport and transport infrastructure

A series of postcards depicting people in national costumes

Portraits of actors and actresses, scenes from operas, dramas, movies, etc.

Female images, including nude ones

An authorial postcard is a postcard with a painting created by the artist directly for it. The subjects of the authorial cards are diverse: genre and historical scenes, cityscapes and nature, historical, literary, and theatrical characters, woman and fashion.

Urban views, or postcards with views of cities, memorial sites, attractions constitute a large part of the collection. Cityscape card is not only a cultural monument, but also a source of knowledge about the past. To get an idea of many not existing or distorted monuments of architecture, to understand how whole ensembles of squares and streets at one time or another looked like one can only ... ↓ out of a postcard very often. Urban views were based on photos whose authors are not always known. In particular this applies to the works of the first half of XX century which are of special importance for us. However we can identify some names, such as: S.M.Prokudin-Gorsky, D.Markov, A.N.Pavlovich, V.Svetlichnyi, etc. Domestic cityscape postcards depicted not only the inner cities with ceremonial squares, ancient temples and palaces, but also the suburbs and individual buildings, including industrial ones. Even the most remote areas of the Russian Empire were of interest for photographers. ↑

Documentary postcard – a postcard with images of important historical events, ceremonies, political and artistic events, photos from places of natural disasters, military campaigns and battles. Documentary postcards were especially popular in the difficult war and revolutionary years. So, during the Russo-Japanese War photographers of the Community of Saint Eugenia made a lot of pictures of ... ↓ the equipment of the army, scenes of battles, soldiers, etc. During the revolution and the first years of Soviet power photo-postcards with scenes of street fights, various festivities and ceremonies — funerals, anniversaries, etc. — were actively published ↑

Illustrations are the cards with illustrations to the works of writers, poets, playwrights, to fairy tales, Russian epics and songs. The Community of St. Eugenia published a series of postcards with illustrations for the works of the poet in honor of the centenary of Alexander Pushkin’s burth. The artists who worked for it were N.N Karazin, E.M.Boehm, M.A.Zichy, V.M.Vasnetsov, etc. The theme ... ↓ of Pushkin's fairy tales in the early 1900s was developed in the works of B.V.Zworykin. For the publisher "Richard" A.F.Afanasiev executed a series of drawings for P.P.Yershov’s tale "The Humpbacked Horse". Later the works began to appeare, the themes for which were taken directly from Russian folklore. The postcards with the drawings of V.M.Vasnetsov "The Guslar" and "Kupava" were published. S.S.Solomko created many pictures for the postcards with female images from Russian fairy tales. Postcards by E.M.Boehm present illustrations of national proverbs and sayings. V.A.Taburin creates a series of postcards "Russian Proverbs in persons". During the first Russian revolution postcards with illustrations and texts of the revolutionary songs "The Internationale", "Working Marseillaise", "The Warsaw lady" were published . In the second half of XX century the postcards with the Soviet songs were performed in the “lubok” style of Palekh or Mstera. The editions with illustrations for children's books are of particular interest. ↑

Cards with different types of troops. The postcards with the images of air and underwater vehicles used for military purposes are of special interest

Images of animals and plants in wild nature and in zoos, botanical gardens

Panoramic postcard – a postcard with the image of the terrain, characterized by wide viewing angle. Panoramic postcards can be of the enlarged horizontally size or consist of several cards in conventional format.

Portraits of the prominent statesmen, public and cultural figures, military leaders, scientists and others

Postcards on various holidays

Promotional postcards, posters, cartoons

Postcards, advertising firms or goods as well as cards, announcing cultural events

Postcards with reproductions of the works of fine art

Cards with 3-D effect

Cards "For memory" associated with the memories of someone or something and containing the appropriate treatment.

Postcards with the image of the means of transport and transport infrastructur

A series of postcards depicting people in national costumes