Fields of collecting interest
The "Russian philatelic area" is a vast political/geographic/historic field including:
- Imperial Russia - From the pre-stamp era through to the Civil War.
- Civil War period
- RSFSR,
- Ukraine
- Transcaucasian Republics 1918 - 1923.
- USSR - 1923-1990
- Tanna Tuva
- The "New Republics" of the former Soviet Union from 1990 to the present.
- The Kingdom of Poland
- The Grand Duchy of Finland
- The Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
- Wenden
- The Zemstvo Posts
- Russia used abroad: China, Levant, Crete
- Occupation Issues: WW1 and WW2
- Military philately: from the Napoleonic campaign through to the present day
- Social philately
- Thematics
- Revenues
- Cinderella Material