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Sunday Stamps | Russian

For today's Sunday Stamps, dedicated to Foreign Languages, I have chosen the stamps that appear on the back of a postcard recently sent by Eduard (Russia).

Ivan Fyodorov or Fiodorov (1510 or c. 1525 – 1583), was one of the fathers of Eastern Slavonic printing. He was forced out of Moscow because of his attempts to employ the “blasphemous” new printing techniques, and found refuge in Poland–Lithuania, where he was instrumental in the publication of the Ostrog Bible, the first complete printed edition of the Bible in Church Slavonic.

Dmitry Likhachev (1906 – 1999) was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and a former inmate of Gulag. During his lifetime, he was considered the world's foremost scholar of the Old Russian language and its literature.

Sergey Mikhalkov (1913 – 2009) was a Soviet and Russian author of children's books and satirical fables. He wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems.

In case you are curious, the front of the postcard show the cover of Nikolai Leskov's story The Wig Maker, designed by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky.