Paštas Lietuvoje iki 1918 metų: siuntos, antspaudai, žymos
ENThe book The Post in Lithuania Before 1918: Parcels, Postmarks and Postal Markings is an outcome of the long-term cooperation between the National Museum of Lithuania and the well-known Lithuanian collector Vygintas Bubnys. The collector's experience and the collection, which he has compiled and systemised in a number of years, as well as the factographlc data found In archival sources and historiography, resulted in a book that describes the postal network In Lithuania in the 18th-19th centuries, its development and importance for the economic, cultural and social life of the society. The intense development of crafts and trade worldwide in the second half of the 17th century led to the necessity to maintain regular communication not only among different states and cities, but also among Individuals. Given the environment of technical progress ofthat time, postal networks were best suited for communication; thus, state institutions gradually took over the organisation and control of postal activities from private individuals. In the late 18th century, when the organisation, funding and pricing of postal activities became a state monopoly in the majority of countries around the world, Lithuania was part of the Russian Empire already Therefore, the present book on the development of the post in Lithuania in the 18th-19th centuries refers to the period from theThird Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1795) to the proclamation of the independent state of Lithuania in 1918. [...].
