LOT # 30493. Money order a sum of 7 rub. 00 kop. From: Skierniewice, Russia / Poland ( Warsaw gubern.) on 18.06.1908, To:Big Borok, Russia arr. 23.06.1908
Skierniewice
(Skierniowice) - county. city of Warsaw province., 62 in. from Warsaw, on Varsh.-Vienna. yellow. dor., on the River. Skernevke, a tributary of Bzura. Once the residence of archbishops of Gniezno, built for himself a magnificent palace with a park. The last of the archbishops who were in SA, Ignatius Krasitsky, published here weekly organ "With tydzień ". In S. was in the old university. Inhab. (1898) 984; Poles and Jews almost equally. Ancient church with a monument to Gniezno. Arch. Ostrovsky, a hospital, a day shelter for children, elders, poorhouse; sawmill factory tiles, 3 tanneries, sheller, curry barley cereal quality. In 1884, there is a congress of the Three Emperors - the Russian, Austrian and German.
The village is located in Greater Borok Kuvshinovskom district of Tver region.
