Glavarkhiv told about collections of New Year's cards from the funds

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Collections of cards are presented in family funds Getlingov, the marshal Kazakov Konstantin, the engineer Klyuev Boris, the collector Svarichovskaya Olga, the journalist Gleb Skorokhodov and other Muscovites. Cards became popular in our country in the XIX century. The custom to exchange small cards with congratulations, by greetings or simply beautiful pictures was borrowed from Europe. The first Christmas card appeared in United Kingdom in 1843, it was ordered by the official the sir Cole Henry who realized that preparation of nominal letters with congratulations to relatives and friends takes away from it...