This relatively rare, red, 4-Kopek, Russian postal stationery card was sent as a New Year's card from a small village near Blagoveshchensk, Siberia, Russia, on December 21, 1903(according to the Julian calendar)! The sender of the card was a member of a small, largely-unknown group of Japanese immigrants living and doing business there in Siberia! Most of them likely returned to Japan before Japanese forces were pulled out of Siberia in 1922 or so, at the end of the Siberian Intervention. The addressee was a relative or a friend in Nagasaki, Japan!

To continue, the two, different, uncommon TPO cancels(#10 & #1(struck on 12/22/03)) from the Blagoveshchensk Amur Post Offices are quite excellent! Interestingly(not seen much!), the mail seemed to have entered Japan in Hakata(a pretty nice strike), Fukuoka Prefecture, on January 25, 1904! From there, the purple, English-language transit CDS from the Nagasaki(quite nice!) P.O. was applied later that same day. There is also another cancel from a more local post office in Nagasaki, but it's hard to make out when it was applied. The receiving cancel(01/26/04) from another, local post office in Nagasaki is about 65-70% legible, but the name is somewhat illegible.

Lastly, as for the condition of the postal stationery card, it is fair-good. It is stained quite a bit. There is some wear and tear around the edges in the form of creases, and slightly rounded corners. Noted imperfections aside, this remains an uncommon piece of Siberian, Russian, and Japanese postal history!