2017-04-25 Tue

Belarus was formed after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. It is surrounded by Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, and Poland, ‘Belarus’ translates to ‘White Russia’.

Belarus was a part of Lithuania and then the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth till it became a part of the Russian Empire in the three Polish Partitions. It was under the dictatorship of Alexander Lukashenko from 1994.

Two stamps and a souvenir sheet of one commemorating modern artist Marc Chagall was released by Belarus on 12th October 1993. Chagall (1887-1985) was a Lithuanian Jew born in Vitebsk, Belarus.

A mint se-tenant pair is currently valued approximately at $10. The mint souvenir sheet is valued approximately at $40. These mint se-tenant pair and the souvenir sheet are sought after by topical collectors.