The stamp design is clearly borrowed from postcards issued by the publishing house of artists A.V. Makovsky and A.I. Lazhechnikov.
A St. Petersburg publishing house founded by Alexander Makovsky, the son of the outstanding Russian artist Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky, together with the artist A.I. Lazhechnikov. The publishing house produced monochrome and color postcards with reproductions of paintings by Russian artists, mainly the Peredvizhniki.