Special-Issue Government Postal Cover with 1st Day Type Stamp Commemorating the 225th Anniversary of the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, 1989.
The size is 6 ¼" x 4 ½", with a pre-printed commemorative postal stamp, postally unused, published by the Ministry of Communications of the USSR, circulation unknown. The artwork in the left pane on the verso shows one of the entrances to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, still Leningrad when the cover was published.
In excellent condition.
The history of the State Hermitage Museum goes back to 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired her first large collection of paintings, laying the foundation for her private collection of fine arts in her "place of solitude," or
The size is 6 ¼" x 4 ½", with a pre-printed commemorative postal stamp, postally unused, published by the Ministry of Communications of the USSR, circulation unknown. The artwork in the left pane on the verso shows one of the entrances to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, still Leningrad when the cover was published.
In excellent condition.
The history of the State Hermitage Museum goes back to 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired her first large collection of paintings, laying the foundation for her private collection of fine arts in her "place of solitude," or "l'hermitage" in French, - a small pavilion next to the Winter Palace. The collection grew and eventually included the Winter Palace itself, having grown from a private royal collection to one of the largest and most luxurious museums of fine arts in the world.
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