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LATVIA UNDER THE RUSSIAN CZARS




On anther part of the site (www.jkaptein.nl):
Beer on tsaristic postal stationeries, with also a beer ordering in St. Petersburg with a Latvian connection



RIGA: MORE NAMES AND PLACES IN TSARISTIC RIGA

The main street of Riga: Alexander Boulevard.
The oldest name of this main street of Riga was Smilšu (sand)way. In 1812 the Alexander-arch was build on the street, a triumph arch in honour of the victory of Alexander I over Napoleon.
So the street was called around 1818 Alexanderstreet and in 1861 'Great Alexanderstreet'.
In the guide of Neumann -from 1908 (see literature below)- you can read that the tsar by this 'Denkmal zu Ehren des beliebten Monarchen' on 28 august 1818 held his entry to Riga after his return from Paris.
According this guide the building hindered the traffic -already then- and the Alexandergate was replaced to the end of the Alexanderstreet on the city-border.
In 1936 the triumphal arch is replaced to the park Viestura verplaatst (north of the Elizabethstreet). This park was the first public city-park, in 1721 on order of Peter the Great constructed as 'Emperors garden'.
In 1870 a part of the Alexanderstreet get the name Alexander Boulevard, now a part of the Brivīdas Boulevard.
In 1923 the name Brivības-street, Freedom Street, is introduced.
During the German occupation in World War II the name became Adolf Hitlerstreet (1942 tot 1944) and the Brivīdas Boulevard became of course Aldolf Hitler Boulevard.

In 1950 Brivīdasstreet, Brivīdasboulevard and alley, Kalku en Svertuvesstreet were united to the Leninstreet.
The picture of the card above is nice, but we are philatelists: the postmark is usual, but you see also the postage due postmark of Riga!. The stamp is missing, and so: postage due.

Original print size of this image: 14,055 x 9,153 cm (is something more as the postal item)


On a detail of the map in the Baedeker 1912 you see in the lengthening of Kalku street: Alexander Boulevard.

In the street was also placed the equestrian statue of Peter the Great, we have seen above.


A card with a picture of 'Alt Riga' (Old Riga).

Original print size of this image: 8,915 x 14,097 cm (is something more as the postal item)











Here below a card with the theatre of Riga:
Original print size of this image: 13,962 x 9,322 cm (is something more as the postal item)

The 'cross-date' postmark, resized 50 %:


The other side of the card:
The postmark of Riga is one-rings, 'cross-date'.
In circular 13 of 5 April 1890 the instruction arrived to use Roman numerals for new stamps. This happened on suggestion of the U.P.U., the Universal Postal Union.
Also the postmarks in Russia change in the 'crossed date'-type. In the middle the day stays first, under it the month (in Roman numerals), left of the whole the century and right the rest of the year.



Another card with the theatre.
Original print size of this image: 14,232 x 9,330 cm (is something more as the postal item).
The postmark is Riga, but the date is not clear, resized 50%:


Card with a picture of the City-canal.
Original print size of this image: 14,207 x 9,127 cm (is something more as the postal item).

The card is sent from Riga Station (the oval postmark) to АРНСБУРГЬ (ARENSBURG), the Estonian Kuressaare.




RIGA: ADVERTISEMENT SHEET



Original print size of this image: 15,172 x 11,819 cm (is something more as the postal item)
In the left corner you see the emblem of the Empress-Maria-Feodoronna-Institution:
a pelican, feeding her youngs with her blood.
Also in Christian art, is a symbol of charity, it is even a mystic emblem of Christ. St. Hieronymus gives the story of the pelican restoring its young ones destroyed by serpents, and his salvation by the blood of Christ. Physiologus, about the year 200, and the foundation for the Bestiarium of the Middle Ages, tells us that the pelican is very fond of its brood, but when the young ones begin to grow they rebel against the male bird and provoke his anger, so that he kills them. In three days the mother returns to the nest, sits on the dead birds, pours her blood over them, revives them, and they feed on the blood.




Backside:



After opening, first time:


Original print size of this image: 15,418 x 22,995 cm (is something more as the postal item)


Then you can open again-second time,


Original print size of this image: 21,590 x 29,845 cm (is something more as the postal item) is about A4


Then you can open again-third time, the left side:

Original print size of this image: 21,590 x 29,845 cm (is something more as the postal item) is about A4

And the right side:


Original print size of this image: 21,590 x 29,845 cm (is something more as the postal item) is about A4

This kind of advertisement sheets is issued 1898-1899. The post-offices sold it for a reduced price, but had the money for the advertisements. The extra profit was for the childrens-house, named after Empress Maria Feodorovna (1759-1828).
In May 1797 Emperor Paul of Russia asked his wife, Maria Feodorovna, to oversee the national charities. Her husband is assassinated in 1801 and Empress Maria remained in charge of these institutions until her death in 1828.

Three groups of issues:
  1. Issued 1898: imprinted stamp 7 kopeke, blue (as Mi. 45), sold for 5 kop., serienumbers 1-5, for St. Petersburg
  2. Issued 1898/1899: imprinted stamp 5 kopeke (as postal stationery Mi. U 32), lila, sold for 4 kop., serienumbers 1-10, for St. Peterburg and Moscow
  3. Issued 1898/1899: imprinted stam 7 kop., blue (as postal stationery Mi. U 33, sold for 5 kop., serienumbers 1-130 [article HBG says: 300 numbered sheets], for St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warschaw, Tiflis, Kasan, Kiew
Total 145 series of adbvertisement-sheets. For the Baltic are interesting the sheets, issued in St.Petersburg.
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The imprinted stamp od the sheet above:
type 3


About this subject:
  • De advertentiebladen van Rusland : onbekend, maar daarom niet minder interessant / André de Bruin. - In: Het Baltische Gebief 2002 ; 41. - p. 22-25.
  • Die Anzeigenbogen zugunsten der Kinderasyle der Kaiserin Maria Feodorowna (Kaiserin-Maria-Institut) / von Hans R. Dietrich. - In: Russisch-Sowjetische Philatelie 1984 ; Heft 34. - S. 59-62



    • RIGA: STAMP WITH POSTMARK OF RIGA AND PERFORATION OF MOSCOW


    resized 50 %    		 Here you see a particular stamp: a postmark of Riga, 20.4.1913, and a strange perforation 'M.P.24'.
    In an old number of Rossica I found the solution:
    The perforation marks of Moscow / by Gary Combs, Dick Scheper and Noel Warr. - In: Rossica 2004 ; no. 142. - p. 30-39.

    Here -on the backside you see the perforation more clear. This 'perfin' or 'perforated initial' is not a company-perforation - to prevent theft by the own employees-, but a perforation of the post to prevent re-use of the stamp.
    On money transfers were used the higher values, so there came a new instruction in circular 22 of 9 april 1910: the stamps had to be destroyed in the office of delivery, before sending the formulars to the Control Office.

    The stamps had to be perforated or intersect. There was no obligation to make perforations with initials: every office, where the money was paid, was free to use their imagination. Here we have the perforation of a Moscow Postoffice (M.P.), a sub-office using number 24. So you find on the stamp the postmark of Riga, from where the money(formular) is send in combination with the perforation of a Moscow postoffice, where the money is paid. Details you find in the article, mentioned above, and based about this a short article about this stamp in HBG 2005 ; 47. - p. 57.



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