“FRAUENBURG” cds in blue, fair strike on 1868 10 k. brown/blue to envelope to Moscow, blue dispatch cds repeated on reverse with arrival cds “MOSCOW 15 JUNE 1872”, very fine

1899, Empress Maria advertising postal stationery lettersheet 7 k. blue, Issue # 50 (dated 1899), complete, unused, very fine

“P(ORT)-ALEXANDROV(SK).NA SAKHAL(IN) 24 9 12 ** b”, clear strike on 1907 7 k. postal stationery envelope to Vladivostok, handstamp repeated alongside and on reverse, a further strike  four days later on mail departure and arrival cds. “VLADIVOSTOK 5 10 12”, vertical archival fold and slight horizontal bend at top, still fine. The Sakhalin Island on the Northern Pacific shore and Strait of Tatar was placed under Russian rule by the Treaty of...

“P(ostal) S(tation). in H(amlet) KRINKACH 14 AOU. 1881”, cds. on 1 k. black/yellow and 2 k. black/red  pair and single, franking an envelope to Novodvor, then re-addressed to “PETRIVITCH RODNIENSK 21 AOU. 1881”, one 2 k. trivial corner crease, very fine, also cds. “P.S. in VILLAGE KEMLI 4 NOV. 1880” on 5 k. violet postal stationery envelope with additional 2 k, black/red and 7 k. grey/carmine to St Petersburg with reverse arrival, light...

“MOGILNICA WAR(SAWA). 20 OCTOBER 1877” two-line cancellation on 1866 1 k. black/yellow, 3 k. black/green vertical pair and 1875 8 k. grey/carmine-rose as additional franking to registered 8 k. grey postal stationery envelope with arrival cds. “KOVEL 23 OCT. 1877” alongside, very fine and very scarce, certificate Mikulski (1994)

“ST. TSARSKOE SELO ZHELEZNOY DOROGI …”, superb on 8 k. grey/deep carmine rose to envelope to Vyborg, Finland, with reverse transit cds “S. PETERBURG 21 JUNE 1876” and arrival framed “ANK 4/7” on front, cover opened on three sides for display, fine. A rare usage of the special railway station postmark on the Tsarskoe-St Petersburg line

“12th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MEDICINE MOSCOW 8 AUG. 1897” on reverse of a 3 k. postal stationery reply card, the indicium used with “MOSCOW 8 VIII 1897 CITY POST" and locally addressed to “Poste restante (manège)”, very fine and extremely rare, also a printed envelope with heading in French “XII CONGRÈS INTERMATIONAL DE MÉDECINE Moscou 19-26 Aout 1897.” sent registered with cds. “MOSCOW 18 VII 1897” to Rotterdam with arrival cds., fine. A...

“FIELD POST OFFICE ON MANEUVERS 7 VIII 1898”, superb violet oval handstamp on 7 k. blue repeated both alongside and on front with rare boxed bluish-green “Head Field Post Office", to reverse of envelope to St Petersburg with arrival cds., very fine. A delighful, most attractive and rare temporary field post office cover

“MURAVIEVSKI LAGER 20 VI 1907” CAMP MURAVIEV on postal money transfer order for the sum of 262 roubles and 15 kopek with the camp label alongside, reverse arrival “KOVNO 21 VI 1907”, 5 k. couple of short perfs. of no importance, very fine and very rare, one of only a few postal money order from this temporary post and telegraph office which was opened during Summer only

“SERGIEVSKI POLIGON 11. 8. 11” SERGIEVSKI ARTILLERY POLIGON cds., super as receiving mark on postcard with travelling post office “RIGA 39 TAPS 10. 8. 11” addressed to the Artillery School, very fine and very scarce, this artillery facility in the St Petersburg province had a civilian temporary post office opened from 1st May to 15 September

“VILNA TEMP(ERORY) P. O. V LAGER 16 May 1892” VILNA MILITARY CAMP special cds. on 20 k. registered postal stationery envelope to Roma with reverse arrival cds. “ROMA 6 -92”, minor imperfections no detracting, still fine. Extremely rare and the earliest date of usage recorded for this camp

“ VR (TEMPORARY) KURTENGOF LIF(LAND) 11 8 09” superb strike of the seasonal postmark as arrival mark on postcard from Switzerland (from the known “technician Andreyev in the house of Yan Kippe" correspondence), very fine and very rare, also the standard cancel “KURTENGOF LIGL. 28 6 14” on 7 k. postal stationery card. A delighful duo, Kurtengof was a resort on the Riga-Orel railway line