1st edition, 1873. The coat of arms of Tver Governorate was used.
On February 1, 1871, the zemstvo post of Vesyegonsky Uyezd (Tver Governorate) was opened. It is known that until 1868 mail from zemstvo institutions was accepted by the state post free of charge, but from 1870 a fee began to be collected, since the zemstvos “are not governmental authorities.” Zemstvo correspondence was quite substantial. The provincial zemstvo board, for example, sent 7,592 packets a year, and in total about 14,000 rubles per year were required for postal expenses across the governorate. Moreover, the state post was very slow...
Then the uyezd zemstvos, in order to improve communication between the boards and their zemstvo хозяйства in the uyezds, began to organize their own zemstvo post. In Vesyegonsky Uyezd, in 1867, 23 horse-post zemstvo stations were established. The maintenance of such stations (stoyki) was contracted out through bidding, while the zemstvo paid the station keepers an additional allowance for each horse. In 1874 the allowance amounted to 164 rubles 82 kopecks, in 1889 to 167 rubles 82 kopecks, in 1896 to 160 rubles, and from 1908 to 175 rubles up to 1914.
Vesyegonsky Uyezd ranked first in the governorate by the length of roads of economic importance. Between the extreme points of the uyezd from west to east there were more than 150 versts. And this distance was covered in only one way—by horses. Each week, the number of versts traveled by the post reached 600.
“Therefore, especially when the roads were impassable (in spring and autumn), sending a message to some point in Zamolozhye sometimes required 15–25 days, that is, a period one and a half times longer than a trip from Krasny Kholm to New York,” as noted in the zemstvo board’s report for 1913.