Maria Feodorovna Hospital Barge. 1905 (Feb 1) Stampless postcard with red cachet "Barge, Her Imperial Highness Empress Maria Feodorovna" (with a Red Cross and initials of the Empress) and Harbin c.d.s, pre-addressed to the Empress at Anitchkov Palace, St. Petersburg, from a soldier in the 124th Veronezh Regiment thanking the Empress for her gifts. The Maria Feodorovna barge was one of 17 hospital barges, partly financed by The Red Cross, which were based at Harbin and used for evacuating sick and wounded from north of Harbin down the Sungari River. A fine and scarce card and cachet from this barge, which was sponsored by and named after the Tsar's mother. Photo on Page 80. (Image1)

Hospitals/Red Cross. 1904-05 Stampless postcards with cachets of hospitals at Irkutsk, Eugenevka or Omsk, or "The Chief Representative of the Russian Red Cross Society of Chita"; picture postcards of hospital barges or ships on the Sungari River (5) or the Hospital Ship "Orel", also a 1913 card written on the "Kostroma" (which served as a hospital ship during the war). (11).