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MARIJAMPOLE
This city in the southwest of Lithuania was -after the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) a part of the autonomous Kingdom of Poland within the Rusian Empire.
After 1860 in Russia were used the one-ring-postmarks with only cyrillic letters.
On this card from Mariampole in Lithuania, we see also the one-ring-postmark (1885), and moreover the arrival-postmark
of Riga:
Real size of the bmp-scan: 12,566 x 9,255 cm
, in German and Polish Mariampol, in Lithuanian Mariampole.
Real size of the bmp-scan: 14,740 x 9,337 cm
We see the logo of the Red Cross on the card. On the other side of the card: Grand Duchesses Tatiana, daughter of the czarina. The mother of czar Nicolas II was the official head of the Russian Red Cross. Czarina Alexandra and her two eldest daughters, Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana, nursed wounded soldiers at a hospital in Tsarkoe Selo during World War I.
Also from Mariampole:
Real size of the bmp-scan: 14,371 x 9,271 cm
Also Marijampole has an other name in the Soviet period. This time not by a different transcription (from Polish or Lithuanian name), but now a total change of the name.
In 1944 the city was destroyed total, and in 1958 the ruined were ccleared and the city rebuild.
The changed in 1953 in 
Kapsukas in Lithuanian, nameed after Vincas (Mickevicius-)Kapsukas (1880-1935).
Hij was een van de organisators en leiders van de Litouwse Communistische Partij. In 1918-1919 was de voorzitter van de eerste Litouwse Sovjet regering. In 1920-1921 deed hij ondergronds werk in Vilnius en vertrok eind 1921 naar Moskou.
Na 1990 kreeg Marijampole z'n oude naam terug.
Here the double-ring postmark of Polangen:
A card, 1907, from Polanlangen to Vienna.
Real size of the bmp-scan: 14,473 x 9,238 cm
Raseiniai:
Ware grootte van de bmp-scan: 14,369 x 9,540 cm.
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