Russian post offices abroad

The Russian post offices abroad were established by Russia between the late 18th and early 20th centuries to handle mail service where the local service was deemed unreliable. The first such were the Russian post offices in the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire, which began operations in the 1770s. All the post offices closed during the 1910s.

Mail from some of the post offices is scarce. There is only one known piece of mail from the Russian post office in Ulankom,^[1] for instance, which was discovered by Michel Liphschutz in the 1940s.

Russian Post currently maintains a post office in Berlin.^[2]

References and sources

References

^ The Liphschutz collection, Part III and IV. Lugano: Guido Craveri, 1994, Lot No. 2158.
^ Russian Post

Sources

Stanley Gibbons Ltd: various catalogues
AskPhil – Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms
Encyclopaedia of Postal History
Rossiter, Stuart & John Flower. The Stamp Atlas. London: Macdonald, 1986. ISBN 0-356-10862-7

This philatelic article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Russian_post_offices_abroad
Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia.

[1] The Liphschutz collection, Part III and IV. Lugano: Guido Craveri, 1994, Lot No. 2158.

[2] Russian Post

[1]

[2]

See also

References and sources