The event took place as part of the Red Square Book Festival in Moscow. The ceremony was attended by Sergey Naryshkin, the Chairman of the Russian Historical Society, and Maksut Shadaev, the Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation.
Nikolay Nekrasov is known to modern readers as a prominent representative of the Russian literature school; he distinguished himself in the field of poetry, worked as a prose writer, successful essay writer and publisher. His Sovremennik became a legendary magazine of its time. Nekrasov was one of the first to start speaking about the tragedy of serfdom and to explore the spiritual world of the Russian peasantry. His famous works are: On the Street, About the Weather, Unharvested Line, The Railway, Peasant Children, Grandfather Frost the Red Nose, The Poet and the Citizen, Musings at the Front Door, Pedlars, Who Is Happy in Russia?, Grandfather, Russian Women, Three Elegies, The Melancholy, The Last Songs and others.
The print run of the postal block is 30 thousand items. The postal block provides Nikolay A. Nekrasov’ portrait, the margins of the postal block feature a landscape, a poet’s dog, and N. Nekrasov Memorial Estate Karabikha. In addition to the issue of the postal block, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Kaliningrad and Krasnye Tkachi of the Yaroslavl Region.
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