“The boundary of the northernmost part of Sinkiang was uncertain. Some of its territory, notably the Altai region and its district with SHARASUME as the main centre was claimed between China, Russia and Mongolia. The Altai region may have been divided between these three countries.”
by Andreas Bliersbach (Translated from German by Philip Robinson FRPSL)
“As a result of the February Revolution in Russia in 1917 and the ensuing abdication of the Tsar, and the assumption of power by bourgeois social revolutionary circles, to maintain the Russian front against the Central Powers was of decisive importance to the Entente Powers. A westward relocation of large numbers of troops, who had previously been stationed in the East, was to be avoided. Directly opposed to this was the German high command who wanted to secure victory in a decisive battle before the expected arrival of American troops in France.”
“How could Georg Kirchner, a famous zemstvo collector very close to Fabergé, get a copy of the cancelled No. 1 of Lokhvitsa in 1904 if these stamps were only discovered in 1909?”
“Although they were wartime allies several times, Great Britain and Russia fought each other during the Crimean War and the Russian Civil War. Here are two examples from the British intervention in the Russian Civil War, and one from the Baltic theatre in the Crimean War. All three have interesting letters.”
“Despite the significance of the event and, as we will show below, the delivery of those stamps throughout the Empire by the end of 1912, few Romanov First Day covers are presently known to us. In this article I will present all those rare birds recorded”
article by Robert Jack, appeared in BJRP 105, pages 70 – 77
IMAGE “The second example shows the route up and running at full speed. It is endorsed “Via Moskwa Moskau” and leaves Kabul on 30 December 1939, transits Mazar-i-Sharif on 2 January and arrives at Brandenburg (Havel) on 19 January 1940 (transit time 21 days) (Fig. 2). Note that German censorship has now been introduced.”
