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Postcard of a couple holding hands, presumably from the 1910s. It features beautiful Yiddish script and an antique Russian Civil War era stamp.

Yiddish translation

"It's written by a woman to her friend. The card is addressed in Russian to Mrs. Berta Gur, mestechko\[=shtetl\] Lunna, the Grodno Governorate. Berta's actual Ashkenazi name is Beyla Rivka.

Closer to the end the text is getting denser with its direction confusing, which makes it quite illegible to me. Anyway, the bits I can read:

Jan. .2, 1912 \[the date on the stamp is Feb. 2, 1912, Grodno\]

*\[To\]Our faithful friend\[in Russian\], who loves us, Beyla Rivka, may you live, in the beginning of my letter I'm going to inform you that I find myself in best health, not worse to be heard from you!, secondly, I'm going to inform you that I'm in Grodno now, and I'm passing my time very pleasantly. I went on Tuesday to the Eddison\[or eydes-Jewish community\]? and I spent my time very well, and on Thursday I'll go to(into) theater? , they expect\[in Russian\] me at the railway station. Now I can write to you that I got myself ... small cards\[photos or postcards\], it cost 30 kopeks a piece. ... a half ... ... not more ... to you ... to write \[obviously the tenor - there's nothing more to write to you about\] Meril?*

The text on the right in the blue ink:

*I have properly/correctly gotten your card*

*I read it with great happiness that you all are healthy ... and friendly greetings to your parents.*"

Via my personal collection

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Tsarist Russia. I always combine lots.

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Vitold Polonsky and Lidya Ryndina

Russian postcard, no. 174. Collection Didier Hanson.

Vitold Polonsky (1879-1919) was one of the most popular actors in pre-Revolutionary Russian cinema.

Russian actress and author Lidya Ryndina (1884-1957) was with Vera Kholodnaya, and Vera Karalli one of the major film divas of the silent cinema of the Russian Empire. Flying the revolution, she moved to Germany where she also made a few silent films during the 1920s.

Lidiya Dmitrievna Ryndina (or Lidiya T. Ryndina according to IMDb ) was born in 1884. She was a daughter of a Russian General. Ryndina started her career as a stage actress in Kiev. Ryndina started her career as a stage actress in Kiev. She later performed at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, and the Korsh Theatre and the Nezlobin Theatre in Moscow. In 1913, she started to appear in films for producer Iosif N. Ermoliev. She became known with roles in such silent Russian films as Peterburgskiye trushchobi/The Lower Depths of St. Petersburg (Pyotr Chardynin, Vladimir Gardin, Yakov Protazanov, 1915) with Vladimir Maksimov and Ivan Mozzhukhin, and Nikolay Stavrogin (Yakov Protazanov, 1915) with Ivan Mozzhukhin and Nathalie Lissenko. The latter was based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s story Devils. She worked several times with the most important filmmaker of the early Russian cinema, Yevgeni Bauer. Their films include Lulia Bek (Yevgeni Bauer, 1914), Vozmezdie (Yevgeni Bauer, 1916) with Vitold Polonsky and Vera Karalli, and Lozh (Yevgeni Bauer, 1916). She also co-starred with Vladimir Strizhevsky in Zhizn trekh dney/A life of three days (Gromov, 1917).

Lidiya Ryndina left Russia because after the Russian Revolution. In fact in 1917, there was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. In 1919, Ryndina first went to the Krim, then to Constantinople and from there to Western Europe. In Austria, and later in Germany, she was able to appear in few films during the 1920s. In 1922, she appeared in Der Unbekannte aus Russland/The Unknown from Russia (Hans Otto, 1922), based on a script by Béla Balázs. She also appeared in a supporting part in Der Mann auf dem Kometen/The Man on the Comet (Alfred Halm, 1925) with Luciano Albertini and Maly Delschaft. After the war, she moved to Paris, where she played in Henrik Ibsen’s play Ghosts. Lidya Ryndina passed away in Paris in 1957. She was married twice, first to a man called Brylkin and later to the Russian poet and publisher Sergey Alexeevich Sokolov-Krechetov.

Source: Čiurlionis, Find A Grave, Ciné-Phil-Azr (French), Wikipedia (Russian) and IMDb.

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Rare English language postcard of noted Red Army psychic Fyodor Sablukov and his childhood home, a Dutch-style windmill in Leningrad’s renowned Holland-themed amusement park, “Demonstration Area 12,” or “Crazy Tulip World,” as it was known informally.

Even as a young boy, Sablukov was recognized across Russia as a “weirding child” who could fly his famous red kite even on days where there was no wind, as he needed not even the hint of a breeze to loft the toy, which was said to hop gracefully upon the clouds like the principal dancer of the People’s Ballet Collective.

As a young adult, Sablukov’s supernatural exploits took a darker turn when he accidentally exploded the heads of 40 Soviet psychic researchers as he was trying to telekinetically separate a marked toothpick from a pile of toothpicks under a glass cloche.

An investigation exonerated Sablukov, finding the cloche to have been defective (as were several of the American made toothpicks).