This card was sent from Michedorf, located about nine kilometres from Potsdam. The population is about 7500 people.  This card is a landscape painting by Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898). He was a Russian landscape painter and graphic artist. He is considered one of the most famous landscape painters of the post-reform era.  On 20 March 1898, he died suddenly of a heart attack is Saint Petersburg, sitting in front of a new painting.