{"id":10451,"date":"2017-03-10T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/?p=10451"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:02:48","slug":"2017-russia-lighthouse-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/2017\/03\/2017-russia-lighthouse-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Lighthouse Stamp, 7 Feb 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 7 Feb 2017 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rusmarka.ru\/en\/catalog\/marka\/position\/31336.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> issued this souvenir sheet to commemorate the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. At the lower right one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Rostral+Columns\/@59.94433,30.3066871,3a,75y,90t\/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s16856599!2e1!3e10!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2Fproxy%2FYK2lRdL1QpmXkRjK6fh0TncBEjaNaAirexL5QF-X6NWrnJvP6V2dTlCIWnl5twm9pkReLnrjN7l0-ycLSfSmBoXTFCZpRA%3Dw203-h152!7i2048!8i1536!4m5!3m4!1s0x4696311639e1aecd:0x4419849eaa55b770!8m2!3d59.9446823!4d30.3049712!6m1!1e1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rostral columns<\/a> can be seen. The two columns are located on Vasilyevsky Island in St. Petersburg and are lighted on special occasions. A rostral is a type of victory column which date to ancient Greece where prows of captured vessels were&nbsp;mounted on the column.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"ngg-fancybox\" title=\"Rostral column | 7 Feb 2017\" href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-russia\/rus_s_1049a.jpg\" rel=\"\" data-image-id=\"11093\" data-src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-russia\/rus_s_1049a.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-russia\/thumbs\/thumbs_rus_s_1049a.jpg\" data-title=\"Rostral column | 7 Feb 2017\" data-description=\"Rostral column | 7 Feb 2017\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-russia\/rus_s_1049a.jpg\" alt=\"Rostral column | 7 Feb 2017\" width=\"200\" height=\"138\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10450\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rostral-Column.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10450\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10450\" src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rostral-Column-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rostral column. Photo by Terry Jednaszewski\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rostral-Column-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rostral-Column.jpg 393w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rostral column. Photo by Terry Jednaszewski<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;See more Russian lighthouse stamps <a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/images-2\/stamps\/stamps-countries-o-r\/stamps-russia\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 7 Feb 2017 Russia issued this souvenir sheet to commemorate the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. At the lower right one of the Rostral columns can be seen. The two columns are located on Vasilyevsky Island in St. Petersburg &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/2017\/03\/2017-russia-lighthouse-stamp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[172,159],"tags":[402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10451"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19081,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451\/revisions\/19081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}