Time to Send Postcards
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An interview with Timur Khusyainov, head of the Pochtovoe project, about postcards as sources for studying everyday history and human connections. He discusses the Pochtovoe and Pishu tebe projects, the transcription of pre-revolutionary postcards, educational work, and the changing role of postcards in modern communication.
Postcards bring people together.
In an interview with the Stol media project, Timur Khusyainov, head of Pochtovoe, explains why the postcard remains an important record of everyday history. Old postcards preserve personal stories, information about families and places, forms of address, details of daily life, and traces of social change at the turn of the twentieth century.
The conversation also focuses on the Pishu tebe and Pochtovoe projects. The first builds a digital archive of transcribed messages, while the second introduces audiences to the past through educational events in libraries, museums, and schools. Khusyainov notes that postcards once performed many of the functions of a modern messenger, whereas today they have become a less functional but more personal and individual form of communication.