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Return to the Virtual Exhibit Main Page. Exhibit: Russia and Persia, by Bjorn Sohrne This 10-frames exhibit called "Russia and Persia" participated at ROSSICAPEX 2009 and is shown here with a few changes. These changes I felt obliged to do before scanning the exhibit at the request of David Skipton. Apart from some changes on the first page, one item has been added and otherwise there are cosmetic changes such as spelling mistakes and the likes wherever I have happened to find them. As the subject as far as I know has never really been exhibited before, at least not in such a substantial form, I can only hope you will find the exhibit entertaining, learning and exciting. In case any reader would find any mistakes in the text I'll be only too grateful to be informed about them. The postal history knowledge is often still in its infancy and in particular so when it comes to Russian and Persian postal relations, and the postal consequences of Russian presence in Persia, often physically, between 1850s and to about 1930. Virgin territory! A special note should be said about the Great War, WWI, period in the exhibit. You may at a first glance think that there are many items in the exhibit not really related to Russia. My intention of showing postal items related to the other actors be it British, Turkish, German, Persian, etc is that in the Persian war-theater all these actors were constantly moving their military forces up and down and God knows where. A Russian or for that matter any other military related item exist as a result of what all these actors were supposed to do. Try to fight each others out! Simple like that. Although also a true postal historian hopefully hate to see a place to be a battlefield, soldiers and the local population suffering, or a country going down the drain, politically, economically, military, etc. we can not at the same time deny the fact that the most interesting postal history periods are always those where a total chaos prevail! Finally I would like in particular to thank David Skipton and Alexander Epstein for their relentless efforts in trying to teach me the ins and outs of among others the Russian field post while writing up the exhibit. Their advices have been indispensable though the result of their efforts might be questionable! If there are still any errors to be found, I can only blame myself who may not have understood all the philatelic aspects of these fascinating but difficult areas given to me. I am really looking forward to hearing from any you, the readers, about your personal comments and advices. The more the better! Stockhold, 10 August 2009 |