This is a postcard sent in 1915 from Вильно/Vilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania) to... somewhere in Russia, I'm not really sure. The picture is a nice panorama of Vilnius during the reign of Russia, most probably taken from the top of the bell tower of the university towards the direction of the present hill of the crosses. The postmark is the oval railway post Вильно Вокзаль / Vilno vokzal (Vilno railway station). It is very interesting that some of the Russian cancels show Вильно/Vilno, the Polish name of the city, but there are also Вильна / Vilna in Russian.
Send to: Petrograd (now Sankt Petersburg, soviet era: Petrograd and Leningrad.)
ReplyDeleteEkateringorski (?) prospect 55 - 29.
Ego preshoditelstvu (= His Excellency) Nil Nilovich Dorgomedov
Text:
Dear oncle Nil and aunt Olja (= Olga). Four days ago we have left Vologda (= one Russian town). Now we are in Vilno. Sorry, that we didn't see you, but our train stand in Petrograd only ten minutes and we only had time for the dinner. ...
Everywhere it is already felt the approach of war, and even more we want to get there quickly. From Vilna we are going to Kėdainiai (= in Lithuania)........
Kisses.
Kira. (= Russian woman's name)
Thank you so much Ma!!! For me, the hand writing of the Russian alphabet is sometime so difficult to read. It's a short text but it surely shows how war affects people. Thank you again! I really appreciate it!
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