Pakapė/Пакапе 1967
Šakyna/Шакина 1971
Here is a couple of covers sent from the villages in Šiaulių rajono savivaldybė/Šiauliai district municipality. The first one is a registered mail sent 1967 from Pakapė and the second one is sent in 1971 from Šakyna with a nice arrival cancellation of Vilnius on the back. Šakyna has one of my favorite church in Lithuania, clearly a gothic architecture in origin, few hundred years older than what Wikipedia claims to be (Here is the link). This type of church is rather unusual in Lithuania, much more popular in Latvia or Estonia, where the Baltic Germans built numerous architectures of this type.
I want to put a focus on an new element. A good thing that the Soviet Union did bring to Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania it was the handwrinting.
ReplyDeleteSuch a matter was taught at school and almost all people, at the end, did write in a very clear and beautiful way.
Usually people who write with ciryllic characters write better than people who write with latin ones. It derives from the need not to make confusion wit some "delicate" letters (б, в, ж, и, etc.).
Interesting point! I have never focused on that point but you might be right! I always thought those German Feldpost cards are really hard to read sometime but never had difficulties with Soviet ones.
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