On May 13, a postal block dedicated to the 150th Birth Anniversary of painter Stanislav Zhukovsky was put into postal circulation within the joint issue of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus

Stanislav Zhukovsky (1873-1944) was an outstanding artist, a painter, a lyrical landscape painter, and an Itinerant.

He was born on May 25 (13), 1873, on the Staraya Volya estate near the village of Yendrikhovtsy in the Grodno Province. He studied at the Real School in Bialystok. In 1901, he graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he attended classes of I. Levitan and V. Polenov. Since 1895, Zhukovsky participated in the exhibitions of the Wanderers. By the beginning of the 20th century, he became one of the most famous impressionist landscape painters in Russia. Since 1903, Zhukovsky was a member of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions; and since 1907, a member of the Union of Russian Artists. He participated in exhibitions of the World of Art magazine. He lived mainly in Moscow. Zhukovsky founded a private school where he gave classes from 1907 to 1917. He traveled a lot through Central Russia, looking into ancient "nests of gentlefolk".

All of paintings by Zhukovsky without exception were painted from life. Working fast and enthusiastically, he tried to capture and convey to the viewer the smallest details of a living, changing world filled with romance, poetry and beauty. He is the author of lyrical landscapes: Forest. Ferns. Sunset (1895), Neman (1895), The Sunset. The Upper Volga (1897), Spring Water (1898), Clear Autumn. Indian summer (1899), The Autumn in the Manor (1906), Under the Spring Sun (The Lodge Gate to Ostrovki) (1915), etc. Oftentimes, he created paintings with interiors of gentry’s estates.

The postage stamp provides painting The Abandoned Terrace (1911) by Stanislav Zhukovsky; the margins of the block feature a portrait of the artist set against the studio with his paintings.

In addition to the issue of the postal block, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad, as well as illustrated envelopes for the postage block with a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Moscow and the second emission type: an imperforated postal block made on canvas-type design paper.


Design Artist: O. Savina.
Face value: 150 rubles.
Block size: 105×78 mm, stamp size in the block: 40×40 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 8 (2×4) stamps.
Quantity: 20 thousand blocks (the first emission type); 4.2 thousand blocks (the second emission type*).
*To be on sale as part of an illustrated cover.

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