Russian stamps comprehensive collection guide

from several periods (imperial-R.S.F.S.R. and U.S.S.R.)

This section of my philatelic website provides a comprehensive overview of my Russian stamp collection, including Imperial Russia, the RSFSR, and the USSR. Here you will find thematic groups such as revenues, exposition sheets, municipals, zemstvos, and rare overprints.
Every page contains scans from my personal collection, along with details that help identify unusual issues, cancellations, and printing variations.

• Revenues

  used to designate collected taxes or fees on documents, tobacco, alcoholic drinks, drugs and medicines and many other things.

• Exposition sheets

  A lot of Scans of non-postal exposition sheets from Russia, just a few examples. click here. On this page you can also find the link to more then 100 different sheets.

• Municipals

  Municipals - nice: stamps from the Moscow police.

• Cut-outs

  Cut-outs - nice: some old cut-outs from the late 1800, seems to be revenue papers .

• Stamps from 1857 to 2000

  I have a wantlist according the Michel catalog.

• Zemstvos

  I have a few of these stamps. More information can be found here. click here.

• BOB stamps

  stamps which are not in the normal stamp catalogues like: army stamps, private stamps (i.e. cinderella's), cut-outs and seals.

• Stamps from Armenia

  ever seen the stamps in these colors, I didn't! click here. to see some scans from the stamps.

• Perforation

  A really nice double perforation on a part of a sheet of the worker stamps. click here. to see the stamps.

• Perforation

  A really nice double perforation on a part of a sheet of the worker stamps. click here. to see the stamps.

• Time periods postage stamps

  The three periods of Russia, imperial Russia - R.S.F.S.R. and the U.S.S.R. click here. to see the periods.

• Unknown stamps

  please take a look at these rare and for me unknown stamps. click here. to see the unknown stamps.

• Identified stamps

  please take a look at these identified stamps. click here. to see the stamps.

• Unknown perfins

  please take a look at these. click here. to see the stamps.

• Revenues

  take a look at my revenues. These are the more general ones. click here. to see the stamps.

• Alcohol and Tobacco revenues

  take a look at my Alcohol and Tobacco revenues from the late 1800's. click here. to see the revenues.

• Republics

  read all about the Russian allied territories, republics and occupation areas. click here. for more information.

• Stamps from territories, republics, occupation areas and bogus stamps

  Batum British occupation , Azerbaijan, Deniken issue, Levante, Army of the North - General Millar, Russia: propaganda stamps, Turkestan, Rethymnon, bogus Russia, bogus Ukraine. - - - - click here. for the stamps.

• Kargopol

  See my latest acquisition, very nice cancellation!! click here. for the stamps.

• Occupation Azirbayedjan

  all the stamps I have with this overprint.click here. for the stamps.

• Smolensk

  How to identify the overprint from Smolensk.???

• Rare stamps

  Rare stamps - take a look at really rare stamps, only a few known examples.

• Cinderella's

  Cinderella's - a lot of old cinderella's, just take a look. Does somebody know there purpose? examples.

• Military postin Siberia.

  Military post: Czechoslovak army in Siberia.examples.




Collector's vocabulary

Whether you are interested in rare fiscal stamps, local provisional issues, military field post, or propaganda labels, these pages showcase material spanning from the mid-19th century to the late Soviet era.
Collectors, researchers, and enthusiasts are welcome to explore the scans, contribute identifications, and exchange information.

Not stamp related, old postcards

• Nostalgic postcards.

  Nostalgic Pictures from Russia, taken from very old postcards.click here. for the postcards.

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