The event took place within the frames of opening of The Red Square Festival in Moscow. The ceremony was attended by Tatyana Golikova, a Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and Sergey Naryshkin, the Chairman of the Russian Historical Society.
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) was an outstanding poet, a playwright, a prose writer, a critic, a theorist, a historian, a publicist, the creator of the national Russian language, one of the most authoritative literary figures of the first half of the 19th century. All his writings are marked by the depth of thought, the elegance of language, originality of style, and the accord of form and content.
The postage stamp provides an image of a fragment of painting Pushkin Composing Poems by P. Konchalovsky, 1937-1944 (All-Russian Pushkin Museum) and an illustration to Pushkin's novel Eugene Onegin "Tatiana at the Ball. (The hostess sees a lady coming, / A stately general at her heels…)" by A. Itkin, 2009 (Pushkin State Museum), as well as the cover of the book Eugene Onegin. The face value of the postage stamp is 50 rubles; the Print Run is 120 thousand stamps. The design is by Artist Maria Bodrova.
The postage stamps were issued in the framework of a Joint Issue of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus and went on sale in post offices and the Collectioner show room chain.
Traditionally, issues of the state valuable postal matter are timed to landmark historical events and actions, or are dedicated to outstanding personalities, major backbone enterprises of the Russian economy, state-run and public organizations.
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