274th - 283th Corinphila Auction - Day 7

1910 (July 2): Fine and clear strike of circular Russian Scout handstamp: 'Russkiy Skaut - Bud Gotov' (Be Prepared) in violet, used on 4 kop. stationery card from Charkow Station to Montreux, Switzerland backstamped on arrival July 10th. Very early card of one of the first Scout Camps in Russia.rnIn 1908, Baden-Powell's book Scouting for Boys came out in Russia by the order of Tsar Nicholas II. On April 30 1909 the young  Colonel Oleg Pantyukhov organized the first Russian Scout 'Beaver' troop in Pavlovsk, a town near Tsarskoye Selo, St. Petersburg.