Kretinga 1906

Russisch Crottingen, German name of Кретинген / Kretingen (now Kretinga, Lithuania)

Кретинген / Kretingen (now Kretinga, Lithuania)

My first post is a postcard posted on 1906 from Russisch Crottingen (or Krottingen), czarist Russia to Hannover, Germany. Russisch Crottingen is today a city in Lithuania called Kretinga and it used to be the border town of Russia and Prussia. It is pretty confusing but the town of Crottingen existed on both sides of the border, so the germans called "Russisch" meaning "russian" in german, the one on the russian border side and "Deutsch Crottingen" the one on their side of the border which is nowdays the town of Kretingalė. The russians called the town Кретинген / Kretingen as you can see from the cancellation on the back. Unfortunatly the date of the cancellations is not really readable but thanks to the sender, he (or she) wrote it on the front of the postcard!
This postcard is acquired on june 2009 in a philatelic bazaar held in Tokyo, Japan.