Marijampolė 1899

Марıампол / Mariampol (now Marijampolė, Lithuania)

A value imprinted card posted in 1899 from Марıампол / Mariampol (now Marijampolė, Lithuania) in Сувалки / Suvalki г.(Gubernia). Suvalki Gubernia was one of the 3 gubernias to consist Lithuania back in the Imperial Russian time. Presently, two third of its territory is in Lithuania and southern one third in the present Polish territory including the city of Suvalki(now Suwałki, Poland) itself. There is another town called Mariampole in the present territory of Poland but it is outside of the historical border of Suvalki Gubernia. The destination of the card is Königsberg in Pr.(in Preußen), the present city of Kaliningrad in Russia. The card has been sent on 20th of august 1899 from Marijampolė and took nearly 12days to reach Königsberg as you can see on the arrival cancellation.