This blog is about old postcards, book illustration and all kinds of paper whimsy from the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 7 years old. I have an etsy shop for cards, books, pins and vintage finds from Russia.
Summer rain in Moscow (1982)
“River Rocks”, book by Arseny Sedugin, illustrated by Tatyana Zvonaryova (1956)
Crowd of “White Nights”, a youth cafe in Leningrad
Vershinino, a village in Arkhangelsk region (Russia, 1980)
Moscow Zoo, 1920s-1950s
Illustration by I. Moskovsky (1974)
Olkhon, the biggest island in lake Baikal (1974)