The size is standard 5 ½" x 3 ½", printed on unbleached but fine-quality paper. Special issue for correspondence from, to, or between prisoners of war. The obverse features the state emblem of the Russian Empire. Issued by the Kiev Postal District. The word "Дарница" (Darnitsa) next to the date on the verso points to an area, nowadays a district of Kiev, Ukraine. That is, most likely, where the POW camp was located.

The letter is addressed to a lady living in Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The message is written in Czec

The size is standard 5 ½" x 3 ½", printed on unbleached but fine-quality paper. Special issue for correspondence from, to, or between prisoners of war. The obverse features the state emblem of the Russian Empire. Issued by the Kiev Postal District. The word "Дарница" (Darnitsa) next to the date on the verso points to an area, nowadays a district of Kiev, Ukraine. That is, most likely, where the POW camp was located.

The letter is addressed to a lady living in Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The message is written in Czech and dated 26 December 1917. Strangely, the triangular censorship stamps, Russian in purple ink and Austrian in red ink, are "backwards", i.e., the Russian stamp appears to be on top of the Austrian one even though the POW was in a Russian camp and wrote to Austria.

Another curious detail is that the Czech sender, Josef, wrote in Russian script with the same ease and beautiful clarity of handwriting as in Czech.

In excellent condition. The paper is unwrinkled, clean and nicely pliant, not brittle. All the text, printed and handwritten, is crisp and perfectly legible.
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