Lot 20353 – 1905 Pictorial envelope with Cossack motif address

1905 Pictorial envelope with Cossack motif addressed to Pskov with free-frank cachet of RESERVE BATTALION of an EAST SIBERIAN REGIMENT in violet on reverse. Blue HARBIN ARMY CORPS SUBURB ‘b’ 24 10 05 cds on front, Pskov arrival backstamp 14 11. Under the Treaty of Portsmouth (September 1905) both Russia and Japan agreed to evacuate their forces from Manchuria and to retain only small contingents to protect their railways.