Romain Rolland (1866‒1944) was a French writer, public person and music historian. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 and became an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1932.
Rolland was born in France where he spent his childhood. In 1881, his family moved to Paris, where the writer, having finished the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, was accepted to the École normale supérieure in 1886. Having chosen history of music as his specialty, he received his doctoral degree in 1889.
Romain Rolland gained recognition at the turn of the 20th century, when a series of his plays dedicated to the French Revolution was published and staged. The series includes such plays as
Les Loups (The Wolves),
Le Triomphe de la raison (The Triumph of Reason), Danton and
Le Quatorze Juillet (The Fourteenth of July). The most-known work that yielded him international acclaim is a novel Jean-Christophe.
The envelope with an original stamp contains a composition of symbols of various kinds of art: a lyre, palette, books, a quill, column and a theatre curtain, as well as a portrait of Romain Rolland against the background of his books.
Additionally, FSUE PTC “Marka” will manufacture a special cancellation postmark for Moscow.
Design: V. Khablovskiy
Circulation: 1,000,000 copies.
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