Figures of the World Culture (ongoing series of stamped envelopes)

Figures of the World Culture is an ongoing series of illustrated postal stationery envelopes issued by the Russian Post and devoted to prominent personalities of the arts.

The series of postal stationery envelopes started in 2013, as of 1 December 2016 13 stamped envelopes of the series were issued; the series will continue.

2013

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  30 July 2013 (244). The 200th birth anniversary of Richard Wagner (1813—1883), a German composer and an art theoretician.
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  20 September 2013 (246). The 300th birth anniversary of Denis Diderot (1713—1784), a French writer and philosopher, a prominent figure of the Enlightenment.
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  27 September 2013 (247). The 200th birth anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi (1813—1901), an Italian composer.
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  21 October 2013 (250). The 225th birth anniversary of George Gordon Byron (1788—1824), an English poet, a prominent figure in the Romantic Movement.

2014

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  9 April 2014 (257). The 450th birth anniversary of William Shakespeare (1564—1616), an English poet, playwright and an actor.
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  1 September 2014 (264). The 225th birth anniversary of James Fenimore Cooper (1789—1851), an American writer.

2015

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  13 January 2015 (267). The 125th birth anniversary of Karel Čapek (1890—1938), a Czech writer.
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  5 May 2015 (271). The 750th birth anniversary of Dante Alighieri (1265—1321), an Italian poet, the author of The Divine Comedy.
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  12 August 2015 (274). The 100th birth anniversary of Édith Piaf (1915—1963), a French singer and actress.

2016

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  10 February 2016 (278). The 150th birth anniversary of Romain Rolland (1866—1944), a French writer and art historian.
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  3 March 2016 (279). The 175th birth anniversary of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841—1919), a French artist, a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.
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  27 September 2016 (286). The 150th birth anniversary of Herbert George Wells (1866—1946), an English writer.
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  1 December 2016 (287). The 300th birth anniversary of Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716—1791), a French sculptor.