Christmas card
 

Greeting Card - a small but very important element of any holiday, because it creates a unique atmosphere of celebration and even many years later is able to revive in our memory long-forgotten holiday. A Christmas card is able to convey to everyone who received it, a wonderful sense of fairy tales, and wonder of childhood.

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How do regret not having preserved cards, postcards remember the 80's, even 70's were, well, a little older was a marvel, thank you, nikola

nikola, the latter in the front row, was very popular and widespread in the 60's. or even in the context. 50-x? Somewhere I have.

- like an artist E. Gundobin , and eighth in the second - A. Zarubin ,
too, and love, and something to collect.

Indeed, these pieces of cardboard, 10x15, you can say a kind artfakt era)), it seems, forever go down in history.

There is one card, pre-revolutionary, black-white "March" Levitan (observe the spelling):
 
Dear Nikolai, I congratulate you Ck Dnem angel! "I wonder, whether you paint or zabrosil. U nas въ Kazan vhodit въ fashion to paint with pastels, you should definitely try it will be perfect, gentle tone. I am still learning to sing, it is a pity that I low golos, not soprano.

The first Russian Christmas cards have been issued with a charitable purpose Petersburg Stewardship Committee about the sisters of the Red Cross (The Community of St.. Eugene) to generate additional funds for the maintenance of hospitals, clinics and courses in nursing. By Christmas 1898 the Community of St.. Eugenia has issued a series of ten cards on watercolors famous St. Petersburg artists.




   I still have most of the received cards for holidays,
   lot of New Year. In addition to examining the nostalgic pictures
   movingly read greetings and wishes.
   Good advice. Sign cards.

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