The event was attended by Konstantin Chuichenko, the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation; Andrey Nikitin, the Governor of the Novgorod Region; and Pavel Krasheninnikov, the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
Gavriil Derzhavin (1743-1816) went down in history not only as a writer; he rose through the ranks from a guard private to the Minister of Justice of the Russian Empire. He was the Governor of two governorates and personal assistant to Catherine II. He wrote the first unofficial anthem of Russia, participated in one of the first literary circles of the 18th century, and then founded his own society - Conversation of Lovers of the Russian Word. Derzhavin wrote tragedies, comedies and operas for the theater, made poetic translations of Racine. The poet also wrote fables Zhmurki (Blind’s Man Bluff), The Choice of the Minister, worked on the treatise A Discourse on Lyric Poetry or Ode, and wrote fairy tale The Tsar Maiden. The last work by Gavriil Derzhavin was unfinished poem The river-times in its fast currents...
The illustrated stamped envelope features a portrait of Gavriil Derzhavin painted by V. Borovikovsky in 1811, which is reposited in the All-Russian Pushkin Museum. The Print Run of the envelope is 500 thousand copies.
On July 14, 2023, the illustrated stamped envelope was put into postal circulation and went on sale in post offices throughout the country and the Collectioner show room chain.
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