Thursday, August 1, 2013

RU-P25

A postcard on the Serafimo-Diveevsky Monastery, or Holy Trinity-Saint Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery (Свято-Троицкий Серафимо-Дивеевский Монастырь) in Diveyevo (Дивеево). It was the only monastery that possessing the only potrait of St. Seraphim. This painting is now kept in Convent Novo-Diveyevo in Nanuet, New York. Diveyevo is located in the Diveyevsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. Thanks SixthSense.











As for now, this card was sent with the most number of stamps on the card sent without envelope. There are 11 stamps on it. A 5p. stamp on Christianity pasted far away from the rest at the upper right corner. Other stamps include two insect stamps with face values 1p. and 2p. A 0.25p. bird definitive stamp, two stamps on dogs (2p. and 3p.), folklore (2p.), hare (0.10p.), road safety (1.75p.), round-shaped stamp on fruit (5p.) and cycling (1p.). They were cancelled in Moscow with postmarks of 102000 on 3.4.2011. 



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