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    A Zemstvo stamp was a Russian local stamp used widely in rural areas from 1865. It was named after the Zemstvo local administrative districts or uyezds...
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    throughout Russia on December 1, 1848. Local postal systems used stamps referred to as Zemstvo stamps, from the term for local government begun under Alexander...
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    invention of the postage stamp. Zemstvo stamps were issued in rural areas of the Russian Empire (c. 1860–1917), and local stamps have been issued in many...
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    Ukraine. Around 800 Russian Zemstvo stamps were issued in Ukraine between 1866 and 1917 at 39 locations. The first stamps were issued at Verkhnodniprovsk...
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    for Zelaya only, due to its use of a different currency. In rural Russia Zemstvo Post handled local mail independently of the central government; some of...
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  • Governorate. On January 1, 1873, the Tiraspol Zemstvo began running the official local postal service. Two Zemstvo stamps were issued for this purpose, in 1873...
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    was a banker who formed a leading collection of Russian Imperial and Zemstvo stamps after he and his family were forced to leave Russia following the 1917...
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    post-Soviet period when provisional stamps and cinderellas were issued. Additionally, there were Zemstvo stamps used in the early 20th century on the...
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    in the Winter Palace. Fabergé formed a leading collection of Russian Zemstvo stamps. After the success at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, the Faberge...
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    times a year in the Kamchatka. Local postal systems used stamps referred to as Zemstvo stamps, from the term for local government begun under Alexander...
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    history. All in English, Ukrainian and Russian language) "Gadyach Zemstvo Stamps" - The gallery of local postage stamps of the Gadyach Zemstvo Post Office....
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    doctors to take up a hobby to help him relax. In 2006 his collection of Zemstvo stamps sold at auction for €90,000 after his death. Wiesenthal was portrayed...
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    Between 1874 and 1912, Gdov issued Zemstvo stamps. The first stamp, worth two kopecks, appeared on April 16, 1874. Stamp production ceased, however, with...
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    published his Catalogue of the Russian Rural Stamps, the local stamps of Russia known as Zemstvo stamps, the numbering system of which has become the...
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    dictionary of the Saratov province. - Saratov: Printing house of the provincial zemstvo, 1898. - T. 1, issue 2. - S. 276-277. Морская коллегия: Речной транспорт...
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    military commander of the rural armed forces (Zemskaya Rat) of the Priamur Zemstvo territory. Shortly after his appointment, Diterikhs overthrew the Merkulov...
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  • book on the Georges Henri Kaestlin collection of Russian Imperial and Zemstvo stamps held by the National Postal Museum which was published by the Smithsonian...
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    formed in accordance with the new provincial zemstvo institutions' regulations of 1864 (after the zemstvo reform in the Russian Empire). Until then, the...
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    doi:10.4324/9781315844770. ISBN 9781315844770. Krebs, H. (1905-03-11). "Zémstvo and Zemsky-Sobór". Notes and Queries. s10-III (63): 185. doi:10.1093/nq/s10-iii...
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  • The Stamp Specialist is the title of a series of books on philatelic research written and edited for the advanced collector of postage stamps. The books...
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    Distinguished Philatelists in 1968. He was a specialist in the early stamps of Russia, including Zemstvo issues and Russian post offices abroad, the RSFSR and the...
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    Paterson (New Zealand) Chan Stamp Catalogue of China (1878-1949) CEI (Italy) Cérès (France) Chuchin, F.G. (Russia - Zemstvos) Colnect (online only) Comprehensive...
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  • Russian philatelic forgeries (category Postage stamps of Russia)
    from the Russian Offices Abroad, usually on common 1 Ruble stamps. Stamps of the Russian Zemstvo local posts have also been forged. 1863 Russia Levant offices...
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    penalties in criminal cases. In 1837, a regulation on the zemstvo police was issued saying that the zemstvo police chief elected by the nobility became the head...
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    from the Zemstvos were granted positions, they were not allowed to vote. The intellectuals of Russia derided these reforms as rubber-stamping and an unwillingness...
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    in the Russian Civil War American Expeditionary Force, Siberia Postage stamps and postal history of the Far Eastern Republic Outer Manchuria Green Ukraine...
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    (1905–1977), and Alexandra (1911–1981). In 1904 Yesenin joined the Konstantinovo zemstvo school. In 1909 he graduated from it with an honorary certificate, and...
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    other applications of the Borisoglebsk district zemstvo assembly. Borisoglebsk: Borisoglebsk district zemstvo assembly. 1888. Report on the operation of the...
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    abolishing capital punishment, promoting local self-government through the zemstvo system, imposing universal military service, ending some of the privileges...
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    destroyed without restoration (all Orthodox churches in the city, the Zemstvo, most of the historic shops on Torgovaya Street, the historic buildings...
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