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What this book is about
Chapter 1. Caucasian vicegerency
The administrative-territorial system
Prince A. I. Baryatinsky – a vicegerent and a personality
Prince A.I. Baryatinsky – a vicegerent and a reformer
Chapter 2. Tiflis mail of the ХIХ century
Postal Service of the Caucasus in the second half of the nineteenth century
City post of Tiflis
Chapter 3. Tiflis stamp
Issue and circulation of the stamp of Tiflis city post
Heraldry and symbolics of Tiflis stamp
Chapter 4. The fat of the Tiflis stamp and its owners
K. К. Schmidt – discovery of forgotten stamp
The riddles of Agafon Faberge’s collection
EPILOGUE
Unique stamps – similar fates
British Guiana 1¢ magenta
The first stamps of Mauritius
New discoveries of the Tiflis stamp
The exhibition “Gold of Philately”
The list of References
Tiflis stamp is an amazing journey of the extraordinary mark through the time, the country and people’s lives
Modest miniature – a postage stamp is the best confirmation of this idea. Each stamp is a reflection of the time and the state where it was born; of the events that preceded its appearance. A postage stamp is a witness of history, culture and life of countries and peoples. It is the connection of the past, present and future. A postage stamp is a small piece of the epoch, captured in a modest picture on the paper.
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In June 1831, he moved to St. Petersburg, and he was admitted to the school of guard sergeants and cavalry cadets with further enrollment to the Chevalier Guards. There he immediately showed indiscipline and restlessness. The result was the “weak success in the sciences.” Negligence in the studies passed into negligence in the service. The disciplinary regiment book had many entries about his penalties for “the pranks” of all kinds. As a result, the young Alexander Baryatinsky got his fame as a reveller, a playboy, a participant of binge-drinking parties and scandals. His mother generously provided her son with financial help. But this money was often not enough to pay his gambling debts. Once a future famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and his friend Sergei Sobolewsky helped Baryatinsky to get out of such debt.
Tsar Nicholas I had heard about the unauthorized behavior of the young Prince, about his amorous adventures. Moreover, it became known about a love affair of Prince Alexander Baryatinsky with the emperor’s daughter – Grand Princess Olga Nikolaevna. Nicholas I was personally convinced that the relationship between them went beyond it was permitted. So, he sent the young Prince Baryatinsky away to the Caucasus.
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