POSTCARD N.41 -  Russia

Postcrossing postcard sent on the 23rd October; received on the 4th November
Postcard image: a winter landscape scene (1892) private collection. by Julius Yulievich Klever
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Julius Yulievich Klever was a Russian landscape painter of german origin of the romantic period, who lived between 1850 and 1924. 

Having risen to celebrity outside of the system (he was at some point expeled from the Academy of arts, only to be accepted years later as one of its teachers) he made the transition between the czarist and the communist regimes and in the later years of his life, he was supported by the Society of Artists, founded by another  Russian Landscape painter - A. I. Kuindzhi - to preserve the traditions of Russian Landscape painting. 

His is the painting on the postcard Zulfiya sent me from Russia. Thanks a lot Zulfiya!

Stamps, left to right:

Russian painting and painters is also the theme of the The 6 Ruble stamp, part of a two stamp set with the same face value, issued on 17JUL2006 to celebrate the birth bicenteanry of neo-classicist painter Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, who lived between 1806 and 1858.

The 52 Ruble stamp is the 2021 Russian CEPT  Europa emission, issued on 20JAN2021,  with the image of a persian Leopard (Panthera pardus ciscaucasica) .

The Persian leopard once roamed in all Caucasus region  but nowadays the few left are confined to western Caucasus, most of them in Iran. It is listed as "Endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.