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Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Centenary of the Itinerant Artists of the 19th century - Meeting, V.E. Makovsky (1883) - USSR, Soviet Union 1971 - Michel USSR 3930 - my hobby

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Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Centenary of the Itinerant Artists of the 19th century - Meeting, V.E. Makovsky (1883) - USSR, Soviet Union 1971 - Michel USSR 3930 - my hobby.

Greetings friends!

Today, I wanted to delve into the study of painting and examine the canvases of artists from different eras, which can be seen on postage stamps issued in the USSR.

You need to understand that the issue of every postage stamp at that time was a propaganda of the socialist and communist system.

Before each issue of a new series of postage stamps, the circulation underwent strict selection and censorship.

We will go to 1971, I cannot remember it, I was born two years later, but my postage stamps allow me to go there.

By the way, postage stamps, this is a good opportunity to visit museums around the world, during quarantine and isolation, stay healthy!

So, today, we will start completing the Centenary of the Itinerant Artists of the 19th century series of postage stamps issued in the USSR in 1971.

On the first postage stamp in this series, we see picture - Meeting, V.E. Makovsky (1883).

At first glance, there is nothing that can become an advertisement for the communists, but then, as now, the principle operates - Throw mud at those politicians who were before you, and those who will be after you will throw mud at you.

Look at the boy, at his apron.

Zhenschina came to visit her son, whom she gave into the service of a craftsman.

Apparently, she lived in the village and could not provide her son with a good future, she wanted her son to be able to acquire the skills of a master and a profession.

In fact, the plot of this picture is identical to the plot of the comedy film "The Story of a Knight". The father gave his son to the knight as squire, so that the son could break into the people and after the death of the knight, his son began to fight in knightly duels, eventually receiving the knightly title.

The picture was painted long before the communists came to power, and, in fact, was a self-criticism of the system of that time.

There is a huge difference between criticism and self-criticism, lol.

According to the plot of this picture, at school, children were supposed to write essays, glorify Soviet power and throw mud at tsarism, which brought Russia into decay.

This postage stamp received a face value of 2 kopecks of the USSR and a circulation of 7,500,000 copies.

You could use this postage stamp until the collapse of the USSR until January 01, 1992.

Let's take a look at this postage stamp.

Description of the postage stamp:

Type: Postage Stamp. Country: USSR, Soviet Union. Subject: #art, #painting, #picture, #miniatures, #fedoskino, #ussr. Series: Centenary of the Itinerant Artists of the 19th century. Name: Meeting, V.E. Makovsky (1883). Denomination of a postage stamp: 2 USSR kopek. Michel's USSR catalog code: 3930.
Episode release date: October 14, 1971. Perforation: comb 112 x 12½. Postage stamp size: 37 x 52 mm. Printing technology: Offset lithography. Circulation: 7,500,000. Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.14 - $ 0.24. Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.06 - $ 0.12. Photo: original from @barski collection.

Canceled postage stamp

To be continued.

You can see the development of the story of my postage stamp collection on my Leofinance blog

I edited a photo in the program PhotoDirector, which I also installed on my smartphone.

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