Anton Chekhov (1860-1904; Russian writer of short stories and plays)
Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864; American novelist and short story writer)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841; Russian poet, writer, and painter)
“View of Tiflis” oil on canvas by Mikhail Lermontov (1837)
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837; Russian writer, poet, and playwright)
Duel between Alexander Pushkin and Georges d’Anthès (the postcard image seems to be based on an oil on canvas painting by Adrian Volkov (1869) postmarked December 22, 1906 (I think) The oil painting by Adrian Volkov (Duel of Alexander Pushkin and Georges d’Anthès; 1869)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892; English poet)
Alfred, Lord Tennysonpostmarked September 12, 1912 (I think…or is it December 9, 1912?)
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883; Russian writer of novels, short stories, poems, and plays)
Ivan TurgenevKonstantin Stanislavski as Ratikin and Olga Knipper as Natalya in Turgenev’s five-act play A Month in the Country, in the Moscow Art Theatre’s 1909 production.
