On the WWWPCM website this version is referred to as 04410/1A and it's described as a reproduction by Piatnik (No. 1134). We don't have the box with our deck, so we can't check if this is the Piatnik version. Sasha doesn't show the back design on his site, so that doesn't solve this question either. But he suggested that it could be a Chinese reproduction and this could well be true as the cards are a bit flimsy and there's a different type font used in our deck.

It's obviously not the quality card that one may expect from Piatnik, neither in material nor in (offset) printing. Too bad, that no date is given for the Piatnik edition or the Chinese one.

The deck is seen as a reproduction of the original deck, because it has the line around the design, just like in the original first edition. This line disappeared in later editions.

The first edition is dated 1911 - 1917. Although the first date doesn't really make sense, when seen in relation to the festivities in 1913 (see page 1), the second date is evidently related to the Russian Revolution.

This version isn't mentioned on the site, but according to Sasha it was published as a double deck, used for fortune telling, in the 1970's. Our (single) deck came with 1 joker and a blank card.

The deck was published in patience size, the cards measure 45 x 69 mm. The above joker and back are shown in real size. The courts here below were enlarged -and the Jack above even more- to show the fine grid offset printing better.

On the WWWPCM website this version is referred to as 04410/2 and it was made by the CPP from St. Petersburg before c1980. Printed in offset.

It's a pity that there's only an approximate last date for this version. It would be interesting to know when the pattern reappeared on the market. Here are our thoughts about this.
One can imagine that in the years following the revolution all references to the Romanoff family and their reign have been abolished, but it's not clear how long this situation will have lasted. Apparently the first documented reappearance is in 1964 and this could very well be one of the first editions after 1917. In 1956 the de-Stalinization was set in motion by Nikita Khrushchev and it's possible that the deck reappeared in the slipstream.

From 1964 to 1970 the 52 card version of the deck was accompanied by 1 joker. In the early 1970's a second joker was added.

In this edition the Ace of Spades has the CPP factory seal printed on it.