Exhibitions: Unique greeting cards are presented in St. Petersburg at the exhibition dedicated to International Women's Day

An exhibition dedicated to the celebration of International Women's Day opened in the Peter and Paul Fortress (St. Petersburg).

It features more than 260 greeting cards dedicated to women issued in Austria, Britain, Germany, Russia, the USA and France from the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg. These are the series of open letters that captured different female types.

The exhibition presents the postcards created by Russian artist Sergey Solomko, who created a series of images portraying female characters from Russian history, Russian epics and tales, and Vladimir Kadulin, who created an original Easter series, in which women in historical and national costumes represented as Easter eggs.

Noteworthy series by an unknown Russian artist is dedicated to the "Women at War" theme. Postcard series relate to the period of the First World War and rendered in the style of propaganda poster. 8 scenes are accompanied by commentaries - the rules of conduct in the war conditions: "cast-iron discipline", "courage and bravery", "cheerfulness, courtesy, kindness, friendliness, cleanliness and neatness", "quarrels and personal scores are not allowed as degrading" and others.

Also among the exhibits are the works by famous American artists Harrison Fisher and Frederick Earl Christy, and Austrian Franz Kuderna.

The exhibition in the Peter and Paul Fortress opens to the visitors an extensive gallery of female images of the early twentieth century, and gives everyone the chance to get an own idea of the ideal of feminine beauty of that era.