Dogs by Viktoria Kirdiy

Postcard ID: RU-3163785
Country: Russia

Yeah, my collection of postcards painted by Victoria Kirdiy has a new one! I like dogs, and these 2 from postcard have so kind smiles :)

As usual, here is my translation of the poem from Russian in English:

Nobody snaps behind the heel, 

Nobody eats citizen horse

And citizen cat, 

When a dog has a booth and a bowl, 

If there are a collar, moon, and sausage in the stomach, 

So everyone knows that the dog is not an orphan.

Here are the wonderful Russian stamps:

A cup of coffee with love

Postcard ID: DE-3664476
Country: Germany

Here is one more postcard with coffee aroma. To be honest I don't know much about coffee types. I know ctripped coffee (latte), americano, cappucino, however I don't know if all of them can contain drawings like on the postcard :)

I like to see it, to smell, but don't drink it :)

Here is a German stamp from the backside:

Butterfly on the pink frower

Postcard ID: DE-3654828
Country: Germany

Yeah, one more amazing butterfly to my collection. I tried to find some info about this butterfly, but unfortunately I couldn't find anything others than Wallpapers with butterflies links :)

However this is a really cute wallpaper. I also can set it to my desktop, but there is a place for our wedding photos (тo, I'm not tired to review it :)).

Also this postcard has a cute stamp:

Kotovasiya, wedding :)

Postcard ID: RU-3102720
Country: Russia

I'm really wonder that this is the first post with Kotovasiya postcard. It seems that I wanted to receive these series so long, that believed that I've already had some of them :)

Kotovasia is a series of cards with cat Vasya that painted by Russian artist Maria Pozdnyakova.

For the October I set in me profile a theme with congratulations me and my husband with our first anniversary. So here is an amazing match my wish :)

Also this card has amazing cat-stamps:

Fruit basket from Germany

Postcard ID: DE-3654746
Country: Germany

Here is one more postcard with tasty cookies. It's not really hard to dy myself - just need some fresh fruits and shortcrust pastry for baskets.

So here is a small piece of big happiness :)

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Postcard ID: PL-974912
Country: Poland

This postcard doesn't require a looong description. It says "Look at me. What do you see? Yammy! Please cook us as soon as possible" :)
These cookies look really tasty :)

Stamps on the backside are amazing as well:

Buildings and Monument in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Postcard ID: MY-225938
Country: Malaysia

This postcard shows some of Malaysian attractions - Sultan Abdul Samad Building, Houses of Parliament and National Monument. I know that amazing places in this country much more. Oh, I really want to visit this country one day.

The Sultan Abdul Samad Building is located in front of the Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) and the Royal Selangor Club, by Jalan Raja in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The structure takes its name from Sultan Abdul Samad, the reigning sultan of Selangor at the time when construction began.
The building houses the offices of the Ministry of Information, Communications and Culture of Malaysia. 

The Malaysian Houses of Parliament is a building complex where the Malaysian Parliament assembles. The structure is located at the Lake Gardens in Kuala Lumpur, close to the Malaysian National Monument.

The National Monument is a sculpture that commemorates those who died in Malaysia's struggle for freedom, principally against the Japanese occupation during World War II and the Malayan Emergency, which lasted from 1948 until 1960. It is located in the Federal capital, Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysian Houses of Parliament is situated near the monument.

It is the world's tallest bronze freestanding sculpture grouping. Every year on 31 July on Warriors' Day, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the Prime Minister and heads of military and the police pay their respects to the fallen heroes by laying garlands at the monument.

Also here is a wonderful stamp on the backside!

Hradec nad Moravicí, Czech Republic

Postcard ID: CZ-538400
Country: Czech Republic

Here is a nice Autumn card sent to me by Daniela from Czech Republic. This country has many wonderful places and castles as well.

Hradec nad Moravicí is a town in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic located about 8 km south of Opava. It had about 5,150 inhabitants in 2006. The town is dominated by a castle complex.

According to the 1910 Austrian census, the town had 329 inhabitants, 314 of whom had permanent residence there. The census asked people for their native language: 169 (53.8%) were German-speaking and 144 (45.9%) were Czech-speaking. The largest religious group was Roman Catholics with 327 (99.4%).

Here is a stamp from the postcard:

Mass Transit Railway in Hong Kong

Postcard ID: HK-282363
Country: Hong Kong

I don't remember if I already received a railway maps, but I'm so happy to receive this one! Maybe, I should one more point to my preferences :)

Here is in Minsk we have subway scheme like X sign, so it's wonderful to discover so big metro maps.

The Mass Transit Railway (MTR) is the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong. It is one of the most profitable systems in the world, with a high farebox recovery ratio of 186%. Opened in 1979, the system now includes 218.2 km of rail with 152 stations, including 84 railway stations and 68 light rail stops. The MTR system is operated by MTR Corporation Limited (MTRCL).

Under the government's rail-led transport policy, the MTR system is a common mode of public transport in Hong Kong, with over five million trips made in an average weekday. It consistently achieves a 99.9% on-time rate on its train journeys. The integration of the Octopus smart card fare-payment technology into the MTR system in September 1997 has further enhanced the ease of commuting on the MTR.

Construction of the MTR was prompted by a study, released in 1967, commissioned by the Hong Kong Government in order to find solutions to the growing road congestion problem caused by the expansion of the territory's economy. Construction started soon after the release of the study, and the first line opened in 1979. The MTR was immediately popular with residents of Hong Kong; as a result, subsequent lines have been built to cover more territory. There are continual debates regarding how and where to expand the MTR network.

As a successful railway operation, the MTR has served as a model for other newly built systems in the world, particularly in mainland China.

Also this card has amazing stamps with beautiful nature of Hong Kong:

Tough luck by Marja de Lange

Postcard ID: NL-2694641
Country: Netherlands

Unfortunately, my old scanner don't like the colors of this postcard so we see so bad quality of the image. Meanwhile the card is really cute :)

I really like brides in different styles. Also here is a cat. Who don't like cats?

As far as I understand this card painted by Dutch painter Marja de Lange, however I haven't found any good information in English about her.. but looked on her another work - they are also good :)

German Wine Route

Postcard ID: DE-3595638
Country: Germany

When I'm going to Germany, I'll take this card :)

The German Wine Route or Wine Road is the oldest of Germany's tourist wine routes. Located in the Palatinate region of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, the route was established in 1935.

The German Wine Route is marked by numerous open-air wine festivals, held annually from March to October, that make it a major tourist attraction. The largest wine festival worldwide with more than 600,000 visitors each year is the Wurstmarkt in front of the world's largest wine barrel, the Giant Cask or Riesenfass, in Bad Dürkheim in September. Other important wine festivals are the German Wine Harvesting Festival (Deutsches Weinlesefest) in Neustadt an der Weinstraße where the German Wine Queen is selected in October, the festival in Freinsheim (Stadtmauerfest in July), and in Deidesheim (Deidesheimer Weinkerwe in August). The first wine fest on the wine route is the Mandelblütenfest (Almond Blossom Festival) in Gimmeldingen held in March depending on the start of the flowering.

On the last Sunday in August, the route is closed to motorized traffic for German Wine Route Day (Erlebnistag Deutsche Weinstraße) with many wineries and Straußwirtschaften open air (seasonal wine bars) open to the hundreds of thousands of hikers, cyclers and inline skaters who visit this festival.

Palace Square, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Postcard ID: RU-3101075
Country: Russia

Here is an amazing night view came to me from Kostya from Saint Petersburg. I think I should wait for spring-summer and visit thic city again :)

Palace Square, connecting Nevsky Prospekt with Palace Bridge leading to Vasilievsky Island, is the central city square of St Petersburg and of the former Russian Empire. It was the setting of many events of worldwide significance, including the Bloody Sunday (1905) and the October Revolution of 1917.

The earliest and most celebrated building on the square is the baroque white-and-azure Winter Palace of Russian tsars (1754–62), which gave the square its name. The opposite, southern side of the square was designed in the shape of an arc by George von Velten in the late 18th century. These plans were executed half a century later, when Alexander I of Russia envisaged the square as a vast monument to the Russian victory over Napoleon and commissioned Carlo Rossi to design the bow-shaped Empire-style Building of the General Staff (1819–29), which centers on a double triumphal arch crowned with a Roman quadriga.

The centre of the square is marked with the Alexander Column (1830–34), designed by Auguste de Montferrand. This red granite column (the tallest of its kind in the world) is 47.5 metres high and weighs some 500 tons. It is set so well that no attachment to the base is needed.

The eastern side of the square is occupied by Alessandro Brullo's building of the Guards Corps Headquarters (1837–43). The western side, however, opens towards Admiralty Square, thus making the Palace Square a vital part of the grand suite of St Petersburg squares.

A monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kiev, Ukraine

Postcard ID: UA-1175383
Country: Ukraine

When I was in Kiev. I saw this monument with my own eyes. Hmm.. maybe, it's a sign that I need to visit this city again :) will think about it tomorrow :)

Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky was the Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (now part of Ukraine). He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates (1648–1654) which resulted in the creation of a Cossack state. In 1654, he concluded the Treaty of Pereyaslav with the Tsardom of Russia.

Here is one more Ukrainian stamp with leaf:

Marilyn Monroe in Russian

Postcard ID: RU-3104436
Country: Russia

Here is one more amazing card painted by Victoria Kirdiy with beautiful quotes about girls and eyelashes:

A girl grows up when she begins to paint eyes.

She cannot cry since this time

or:

We, women, have only two weapons: mascara and tears, but we can not use both simultaneously.

(c) Marilyn Monroe

Also here is a new Russian stamp:

The lake, south side. Konigsberg, Germany, 1890

Postcard ID: RU-3104266
Country: Russia

This card with nice colors shows the lake in Konigsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia). It looks like really quiet place.

Königsberg (until 1946 officially: Königsberg i. Pr.) is the former name of Kaliningrad in the Russian Federation. It was the easternmost large city in Germany until it was captured by the Soviet Union near the end of World War II.
The literal meaning of the city's old name is 'King's Mountain'.

By the end of the war, Königsberg was heavily damaged by Allied bombing in 1944 and during its siege in 1945. The city was captured and annexed by the Soviet Union. Its German population was expelled, and the city was repopulated with Russians and others from the Soviet Union. Briefly Russified as Kyonigsberg (Кёнигсберг), it was renamed "Kaliningrad" in 1946 in honour of Soviet leader Mikhail Kalinin. It is now the capital of Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast, an area completely cut off by land from the rest of Russia.

The Eastern Festoon

Postcard ID: NL-2685181
Country: Netherlands

here is one more postcard to my butterfly collection. This butterfly has almost black-and-white colors, but looks so great in any case!

The Eastern Festoon (Allancastria cerisyi) is an Old World papilionid butterfly whose geographical range extends from the Balkans to include Turkey and the near Middle East. It exhibits several geographical variants. It is named for Alexandre Louis Lefèbvre de Cérisy.

The wingspan is 52–62 mm. The butterfly flies from March to July depending on the location.

Here are some new Dutch stamps:

A passion for chocolate

Postcard ID: NL-2706366
Country: Netherlands

I so rarely receive cards with Nouvelle images and so like to receive them. And it's a double win to receive this lovely card with chocolate that I also like!

Also look on wonderful stamps from the backside:

Coimbra, Portugal

Postcard ID: PT-381854
Country: Portugal

Yeah, here is more card from beautiful Portugal. I don't know why, but I love this country more and more and would like to visit it in the next couple of years :)

This card is shows Coimbra, a city and a municipality in Portugal.

The third-largest urban centre in Portugal (after the much larger cities of Lisbon and Porto), it is the largest city of the district of Coimbra, the Centro region and the Baixo Mondego subregion. About 460,000 people live in the Região de Coimbra, comprising 19 municipalities and extending into an area 4,336 square kilometres (1,674 sq mi). Although it served as the nation's capital in the High Middle Ages, it is better known for the University of Coimbra, one of the oldest in Europe and the oldest academic institution in the Portuguese-speaking world.

The historical University buildings were classified as World Heritage by UNESCO in 2013: "Coimbra offers an outstanding example of an integrated university city with a specific urban typology as well as its own ceremonial and cultural traditions that have been kept alive through the ages."

Post about Coimbra university is here.

In conclusion, here is a Portuguese stamp:

Happy colours of Ukraine

Postcard ID: UA-1168745
Country: Ukraine

Here is a traditional greetings card from Ukraine. It seems that after looking on it I should go to Ukraine as soon as possible :) but actually I want to visit Belarus's neighbour.

I like this country, its colours and patterns.

Also I see here a new Ukrainian stamp! It's quite big, beautiful and interesting:

Mount Rushmore, USA

Postcard ID: US-2200967
Country: USA

The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 18 m sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). The entire memorial covers 5.17 km2 and is 1,745 m above sea level.

South Dakota historian Doane Robinson is credited with conceiving the idea of carving the likenesses of famous people into the Black Hills region of South Dakota in order to promote tourism in the region. Robinson's initial idea was to sculpt the Needles; however, Gutzon Borglum rejected the Needles site because of the poor quality of the granite and strong opposition from Native American groups. They settled on the Mount Rushmore location, which also has the advantage of facing southeast for maximum sun exposure. Robinson wanted it to feature western heroes like Lewis and Clark, Red Cloud, and Buffalo Bill Cody, but Borglum decided the sculpture should have a more national focus and chose the four presidents whose likenesses would be carved into the mountain. After securing federal funding through the enthusiastic sponsorship of "Mount Rushmore's great political patron", U.S. Senator Peter Norbeck, construction on the memorial began in 1927, and the presidents' faces were completed between 1934 and 1939. Upon Gutzon Borglum's death in March 1941, his son Lincoln Borglum took over construction. Although the initial concept called for each president to be depicted from head to waist, lack of funding forced construction to end in late October 1941.

Mount Rushmore has become an iconic symbol of presidential greatness and has appeared in works of fiction, and has been discussed or depicted in other popular works. It attracts over two million people annually.

Here are the postcard stamps:

Life is beautiful

Postcard ID: UA-590303
Country: Ukraine

 I like reading. And the sender also likes reading. So she sent me this wonderful card!

If you’re quite attentive person you can see that the author of the books on postcard is Cecelia Ahern. To be honest I’ve not read any book of this author, however I have at least 3 books in my wishlist for reading :)

 Life is beautiful!

"Eagle" sculpture on mountain in Pyatigorsk, Russia

Postcard ID: RU-1722923
Country: Russia

Pyatigorsk is a city in Stavropol Krai located on the Podkumok River, about 20 kilometers from the town of Mineralnye Vody where there is an international airport and about 45 kilometers from Kislovodsk. Since January 19, 2010, it has been the administrative center of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia. Population: 142,511.

This card is a good panoramic view of Pyatigorsk. On the left side you see the Eagle monument, in the centre is “Goryachaya” (Hot) mountain.

Russian architecture at 19th century

Postcard ID: RU-1542090
Country: Russia

I like Russian architecture. It's so traditional, special and something we have here, in Belarus. All churches, palaces.. amazing!

The Russian Revival style is the generic term for a number of different movements within Russian architecture that arose in second quarter of the 19th century and was an eclectic melding of pre-Peterine Russian architecture and elements of Byzantine architecture.

The Russian Revival style arose within the framework the renewed interest in the national architecture, which evolved in Europe in the 19th century, and it is an interpretation and stylization of the Russian architectural heritage. Sometimes Russian Revival style is often erroneously called Russian or Old-Russian architecture, although the majority of Revival architects did not directly reproduce the old architectural tradition. Being instead a skillful stylization, the Russian Revival style was consecutively combined with other, international styles - from the architectural romanticism of first half of the 19th century to the modern style.

A letter is always better than a phone call

Postcard ID: RU-3065172
Country: Russia

Yes, here is a postcard from Russia with U.S. Mail printed :) How do you think who is s receiver of the mail from this nice girl? Some beautiful man, hopefully :)

I think that it's better to put here the quote that the sender wrote on the backside:

“A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow.”

(c) Alice Steinbach

Here is one more Olympic stamp:

Texas map, USA

Postcard ID: US-3002231
Country: USA

This is one from the most interesting US maps I ever received. If you can see on names of other states on this map, you should smile at minimum! great, great card :)

Texas is the second most populous (after California) and the second largest of the 50 U.S. states (after Alaska) in the United States of America, and the largest state in the 48 contiguous United States. Geographically located in the south central part of the country, Texas shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and borders the U.S. states of New Mexico to the west, Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas to the northeast, and Louisiana to the east.

Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth-largest in the United States, while San Antonio is the second largest in the state and seventh largest in the United States. Dallas–Fort Worth and Greater Houston are the fourth and fifth largest United States metropolitan areas, respectively. Other major cities include El Paso and Austin—the state capital. Texas is nicknamed the Lone Star State to signify Texas as a former independent republic and as a reminder of the state's struggle for independence from Mexico. The "Lone Star" can be found on the Texas state flag and on the Texas state seal today. The origin of the state name, Texas, is from the word, "Tejas", which means 'friends' in the Caddo language.

Here is the page with US maps that I have - List of United States

Key lime pie recipe

Postcard ID: US-2906375
Country: USA

This is a wonder that I received this postcard. Thanks a lot to the sender Laura for sending the card for the 2nd time. It also was so nice to read greetings in Belarusian. I appreciated it!

Actually, here is a recipe:

Aaand this postcard have many amazing stamps! With butterflies and Love! My postcard of happiness :)

Butterfly on the hand

Postcard ID: UA-1133732
Country: Ukraine

Here is a great postcard where I see sense of the future. The butterfly sits on the robot's hand. It's like peaceful coexistence of nature, humanity with technique, robots.

By the way, butterfly has great colours! ;)