On July 16, a postal block dedicated to the 200th Birth Anniversary of poet Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet was put into postal circulation

Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet (1820−1892) was a Russian lyrical poet and translator, memoirist, and corresponding member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1886).

In 1840, the first collection of Fet's poems, Lyric Pantheon, was published, and in 1850 his second collection, Poems, came out, which received favorable reviews from critics in magazines. From the end of 1841, Fet's poems were regularly published in the Moskvityanin magazine, and subsequently in Otechestvennye Zapiski. Shortly after, Fet's poems began to be also published in Sovremennik. In 1856, a new collection, Poems by A.A. Fet, edited by I.S. Turgenev came out, which was reissued in 1863 in two volumes.

The postal block provides a poet’s portrait surrounded by images of lyrical heroes from his poems.

Artist: G. Shishkin. Design: O. Savina.
Face value: 100 rubles.
Block size: 103×81 mm; stamp size in the block (oval): 35.7×49 mm.
Quantity: 25 thousand blocks.

In addition to the issue of the postal block, JSC Marka will produce First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Special cancellation marks:

 

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