RUSSIAN ANCIENT POSTAL ROUTE

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RUSSIAN ANCIENT POSTAL ROUTE

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Jan 10, 2021 8:40 pm

On this stamp there are a few inland watercraft depict most probably used for the transport of the mail when crossing lakes and rivers. Not any information on the watercraft.

The Kholmogory postroad was known as early as the end of the 15th century, but only a section of it to Vologda was in use. The first offers to establish a postal service in Arkhangelsk were made to Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich in the middle of the 17th century. At that time, the postroad followed nearly the same path as the present-day Moscow Arkhangelsk highway: through the trading quarter of the Trinity Monastery, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Rostov the Great, Yaroslavl, Danilov, Vologda, Velsk, Shenkursk, and Kholmogory. The oldest Russian regular postal service between Arkhangelsk and Moscow was launched under the rule of Peter the Great in 1693.

The postal stamp shows an ancient post route: the Kholmogory postroad (Arkhangelsk — Vologda — Yaroslavl — Moscow) and the Europe logotype.

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