History of New Year's cards

The history of New Year's cards goes back more than one century. Some of the first postcards appeared in 1869 in Austria-Hungary. They were significantly different from those we see on retail shelves today. The drawings on postcards of that time were small in size and often done by hand.

The first New Year's card is considered to be a card made in 1794 by the English artist Dobson. It depicted a family standing near a Christmas tree in a snowy forest. It was from England that the custom of sending postcards by mail came to our country.

The standard size of postcards was established only in 1874 by the Universal Postal Union. It was then that postcards of the usual size of 9x14 centimeters began to be made. Since then, postcards have become brighter and more sophisticated. They were decorated with beads and flowers, made into shapes, and varnished. Postcards were collected, they were used to decorate the walls of houses and pasted them into albums.

Before the revolution in Russia, the era of postcards flourished. After the revolution, the tradition of giving cards and decorating them practically disappeared, receiving a rebirth only in 1941 with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. And one cannot but rejoice in the fact that now you can purchase or order a postcard on absolutely any topic and any taste.