On September 2, postage stamps “The Joint Issue of the Russian Federation and the Principality Liechtenstein. Art” is issued
The Principality of Liechtenstein is a small country (with an area of 160 sq km) in the Central Europe. The capital is Vaduz. Its main attraction is an Art Gallery which is belonged to the Princely family. It includes about 1500 paintings of world famous artists: Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Brueghel, Rubens and as well as of the Russian painter, representative of symbolism and modern – Ivan Grigorievich Myasoedov. In 1930s he changed his name to Euvgeniy Zotov and immigrated with his family to Liechtenstein where he was a court artist.
The postage stamps depict the images of I.G. Myasoedov (E. Zotov) “The Argonauts” (1909) and “Silum” (1945) being kept in the State Russian Museum and in the Private collection of Doctor Peter Goop.
The artistic cover is prepared for the issue: there are two postage stamps and FDC with the cancellation of the Russian Federation and two postage stamps and FDC with the cancellation of the Principality of Liechtenstein.
Artist-designer: A. Povarikhin.
Face value: 15 rub. of each stamp.
Size of stamp: 50х37 mm.
Form of issue: sheet of 10 (3x4) stamps (two images in the sheetlet) and two coupons.
Circulation: 300 thousand copies of each image (60 thousand sheets).
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