On September 27, an envelope with a commemorative stamp “The 400th Anniversary of the Zemsky Sobor of 1613” is issued
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Zemsky Sobors are high estate-representative institutions with advisory functions where general state issues have been considered, they have been convoked in Russia throughout one and a half century from the middle of the XVI century up to the end of the XVII.
The Sobor of 1613 was convoked in conditions of dynastic crisis. It was opened on January 7, 1613 and Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov was elected to reign on February 21, 1613.
On July 11, 2013 Mikhail Fyodorovich was crowned in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin and became the first tsar of a new Romanovs’ dynasty.
The envelope with a commemorative stamp depicts a portrait of tsar – Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov and an image from the “Book of the election of Mikhail Fyodorovich, great monarch, tsar and great prince” (Moscow, 1856) from funds of the Russian State Archive of ancient acts.
Design: A. Moscovets.
Face value: letter “A”.
Circulation: 1 million copies.
On September 27, in the framework of a series “Figures of the world culture” a postal envelope with a commemorative stamp “The 200th Birth Anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)” is issued
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (1813-1901) is a great Italian composer. His creative works are one of the greatest achievements of world opera art and a culmination of development of the Italian opera of the XIX century.
Verdi became famous due to operas “Nabucco” (1841) and “The Lombards on the First Crusade” (1842). Then there were next several works: “The Sicilian Vespers”, “The Troubadour”, “A Masked Ball”, “The Force of Destiny”, the second edition of the opera “Macbeth”. The opera “Aida” was ordered by the government of Egypt in order to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal. His last work “Falstaff” (1892) is a witty, lambent, humorous opera in genre of Italian opera-buffa. It surprises with its cheerful and perfect skill.
The envelope with a commemorative stamp depicts a composition of symbols of different art directions: liras, palettes, books, pens, columns of theater curtain; a portrait of Giuseppe Verdi on the background of the cover and a fragment from score opera “Falstaff”.
Artist-designer: M. Bodrov.
Face value: letter “A”.
Circulation: 1 million copies.
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