Poland
2002
"Poles in the World"
Issue Date |
22.02.2002 |
ID |
Michel: 3953-3954
Scott: 3621-3622
Stanley
Gibbons: 3974-3975 Yvert: 3718-319 UPU: PL003.02
Category: pP |
Author |
Designer: Maciej Jedrysik |
Stamps in set |
2 |
Value |
PLN 0.70 - Jan Czerski with Coelodonta
skeleton.on background
PLN 0.70 - Bronislaw Pilsudski |
Size (width x height) |
43 x 31.25 mm |
Layout |
20 stamps in sheet |
Products |
FDC x 2 |
Paper |
fluorescent
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Perforation |
11.6 x 11.6 |
Print Technique |
Offset
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Printed by |
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Quantity |
2 x 500,000 pcs each |
Issuing Authority |
Polish Pos |
Going
on with the publishing cycle "Poles in the World", Polish Post is
presenting next personages who living and working outside their
motherland have performed extraordinary works, leaving behind lasting
signs and thus making famous the name of Poland. Two big
Polish explorers - Jan Czerski (1845 - 1892) and Bronislaw Pilsudski
(1866-1918) were carrying on their works being sent on exile
Jan Czerski
has been serving a sentence in Omsk,
Siberia for participation in the January Uprising. For a young, frail
man this was an
unbearable sentence. During his military service he found protection by
some compatriots living in Omsk. They were procuring him scientific
books, which he has been studying carefully. It was an escape from the
sufferings of everyday life. In the years 1871-1883 on instructions of
the Russian Geographic Association he made many expeditions into the
countryside. The most important of these expeditions aimed the study of
the geological structure of the whole cost of the lake Baikal. The
result of this work was a geological map of the costs of the lake
Baikal for which work he had been awarded in Bologna. In the years
1877-1881 during four scientific expeditions Czerski has explored the
valley of the river Selenga and he wrote a study concerning Baikal,
explaining the origin of the lake and presenting the geological
structure of East Siberia. He was decorated with the gold medal of the
Russian Science Academy. During his expeditions he collected and
cataloged over 2,500 of ancient bones, publishing in 1888 a large work
on
Quaternary Period
mammals followed by an even larger work on the Siberian mammals relics
in 1891.
Bronislaw
Pilsudski, the elder brother of Jozef, after the
unsuccessful attempt to kill Car Alexander III, has been sentenced to
death penalty as an accomplice of the attempt. The sentence has been
change to the most serious sentence of
exile, a 15-years galleys. He was sent in 1887 to Sachalin, "The devil
Island " for the exiled prisoners. To escape the horrible galleys
reality he approached the aboriginal inhabitants of this region whom he
was considering as the only not demoralized people of the island and
soon he became a specialist of their culture and language. Thanks to
him is known nowadays the disappearing now culture and language of the
Ajne nation. Pilsudski left thousands of pages of words and texts in
the languages of Ajne, Niwchijsk and Orock nations and several hundreds
of pictures, which he had shot during his exploration voyages. The most
interesting material are the rubber and wax phonographic cylinders with
the recorded by the explorer songs, prayers and legends of the nations
of Sachalin. Up to now are kept preserved about 80 unique such
cylinders, which only in 1983 have been reconstructed and read thanks
to the laser technique at the University of Hokkaido in Sapporo. Based
on the recorded by Pilsudski materials, which are a priceless document
for the contemporary scientists, has been even originated a musical,
and the Japanese children sing a song "about the extraordinary stories
coming from the wax cylinders of uncle Piusutsuiki".
Products
FDC |
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References:
Poczta Polska
Wikipedia
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