Saturday, October 20, 2012

Berezwecz-Panevėžys Railway post 1914

Railway post ПоневѢж / Ponevezh (now Panevėžys, Lithuania) - Березвеч / Berezvech (now Беразьвечча / Berazvechcha, Belarus)

I have previously posted the Imperial Russian 1902 railway postmark No.201 Švenčionėliai-Panevėžys (you can find the link HERE), and this No.202 which I'm posting today, is the same line but in the opposite direction. The postmark is from 1914 between ПоневѢж / Ponevezh (now Panevėžys, Lithuania) and Березвеч / Berezvech (spelled Berezwecz in Polish, now Беразьвечча / Berazvechcha, Belarus). In 1905, the railway postal service has extended from Švenčionėliai to Berezwecz. Berezwecz was once famous for its magnificent Church which no longer exists. It was one of the finest example of Vilnius Baroque style architecture in the former Vilna Gubernia. Fortunately, an exact replica has been rebuilt in Białystok, Poland in 1996 and you can witness once again the glory of Berezwecz. You can find the Wikipedia link to Berezwecz with the picture of the church of the Resurrection in Białystok HERE (it is in Polish. It has not been translated in english yet).

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