Rossica., 2008. — 161 p. The Soviet air mail covers presented provide the viewer with a tour-de-force of the early development of the Soviet civil air mail service (1922 - 1941). Many of the covers are extremely rare especially early flights in a given route and those from more obscure routes in regions east of the Urals, e.g., Siberia, the Far East, the Far North and...
Rossica., 2009. — 128 p. Although this is a picture postcard exhibit, it incorporates a considerable amount of social philately and postal history. It traces the history of PPC use in Russia from its very beginnings up to shortly after WWII, the people who sent them and the various reasons for which the cards were sent. It specifically excludes exchange-club correspondence, as...
Rossica., 2016. — 203 p. This exhibit offers the viewer a chronological overview of the postal evolution of mail sent by way of the trans-Siberian rail network between 1897 and 1945.
Rossica., 2017. — 484 p. The history of clandestine (and not so clandestine) mail surveillance in Russia is a long one, extending from 1690 under Peter the Great, when all letters going abroad were opened at Smolensk, up to the present day. Perlustration under the communists was used, among other things, to exert political control, hunt for foreign spies communicating through...
Rossica., 1977. — 128 p. The goal of this exhibit is to explore the life of Leningraders and defenders of the city by means of social philately. The exhibit includes posta lly used picture postcards printed before and during the siege, letters, covers, and official documents that went through postal system and whose origin, destination, or both were either within the city or in...
Rossica., 2008. — 161 p. In order to sustain its war machine in World War II, Germany forcibly deported workers from occupied areas of the Soviet Union to toil in industry and agriculture. These workers were officially called 'Ostarbeiter' or eastern workers. In the occupied areas of the Soviet Union the local population was not permitted to use postal, telephone, or telegraph...
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