On December 5, an official ceremony took place of cancellation of a postage stamp dedicated to painter Konstantin Korovin's dacha (country house)

The event was held in the A. Solzhenitsyn House of Russian Abroad in the frame of the presentation of the first international Konstantin Korovin Prize among artists. The cancellation ceremony was attended by Vladimir Lebedev, a Deputy Director of the A. Solzhenitsyn House of Russian Abroad, an Advisor to the Mayor of Moscow; Natalia Bulakh, the Executive Director of the Union for the Development and Interaction of Cities of the Golden Ring; Elena Peshkova, the President of the Konstantin Korovin Foundation Let’s Save Together; and Artem Adibekov, the Director General of JSC Marka.

K. Korovin's dacha (country house) is in the village of Okhotino of the Yaroslavl Region. In 1897, K. Korovin bought a plot of land from philanthropist S. Mamontov where by 1903 he built a house. There Korovin spent summer months; he was visited by friends: F. Chaliapin, V. Serov, A. Kuprin. The last time he came to the dacha was in the spring of 1921 and found it already ruined. In Soviet times, the house accommodated a school. The museum was opened here in 2015.

The postage stamp provides an image of K. Korovin’s dacha in the village of Okhotino of the Yaroslavl Region decorated with drawings of the artist's palette and a decorative ribbon. The face value of the postage stamp is 31 rubles; the Print Run is 36 thousand stamps.

On November 15, 2024, the postage stamps were put into postal circulation in the Cultural Heritage of Russia series and went on sale in post offices and the Collectioner show room chain.



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