№ 355-364. The 850th anniversary of Moscow. Historical Moscow.

The margins of the sheetlet feature items of Moscow's medieval culture, portraits of historic figures, and monuments. In the left vertical margin decorated with a leafy ornament, there are(from top to bottom): a Russian helmet (16-17 cc); a stamp of Kiev's Metropoly with the picture of Our Lady Oranta (1093-1095) which was found in the Moscow Kremlin; the church of St.Nicholas the Wet (1697, non-existent); a falcon and an initial from manuscripts of 1220s; a quiver and arrows, symbols of hunting and wars. In the lower horizontal margin there are (from left to right): the view of the Kremlin and the River Moscow (12c); in the foreground there is a pot and a goblet (12c); a watch-tower and a fire which symbolise the Tartar and Mongols aggression; an ornament of a letter form Russian manuscripts (14 c); an icon miniature showing Peter the Mitropolit laying the foundation stone of the Dormition Cathedral from an icon of the 16th century; a portrait of Ivan Kalita, Prince of Moscow (from 1325) from The Title Book of 1672 and a stamp of his will; Russian troops lead by Dmitry Donskoi leaving the Kremlin for the Kulikovo field (1380); a portrait of Ivan III, the Great Prince of Moscow, after an engraving of 1584, and his stamp featuring a double-headed eagle (1497); Moscow streltsi (Russian regular army) (after a drawing by Olearius, 1633); a detail from the front piece of a Gospel dd 16 c, "birds interlaced", which symbolises the gathering of Russian lands; St.Basil's cathedral, the walls and towers of Moscow (1610). In the right vertical margin there are (from bottom to top): a wooden Moscow belfry, the church of Our Lady in Putinki (1648-1652), the dome of the government building in the Moscow Kremlin (1776-1788); the Tsar's Tower of the Moscow Kremlin (1680).