🌎 Country

Russia

📅 Year

1914

💰 Denomination

1 kopeks

📮 Issue type

Semi-postal

🖼 Topic

Allegory & Mythology

From Russia's first charity stamps, issued a few months into the First World War. Each was sold for one kopek more than its postal value, the extra going to soldiers and their families. The 1 kopek shows Ilya Muromets, the hero of the old epic poems.

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