Happy New Year Ded Moroz with a boy decorating Christmas tree, artist Zarubin, Cute Vintage Russian Postcard (1982) by SovietPostcards (3.50 USD)
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.
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Soviet New Year
(this is what I’ll be doing tonight)
“New Year tree is coming!” Oleg Korovin (1954)
Vacuum cleaning Arbatskaya metro station in Moscow (1955)
Happy New Year postcard by M. Kanevsky (1961)
First New Year tree (1965)
IKEA made a most darling assembly instruction for the Russian salad–Olivier or Olivye–a staple of the Russian New Year celebrations. Love this!
I make a huge bowl of this salad once a year and eat it on New Year’s day plus as long as it lasts in January. Can’t wait! :)
PS: this recipe doesn’t look entirely correct. If you want to make the Russia salad, google a tested recipe.
New Year ball in 1964. Photo by Miroslav Murazov.
Antique Christmas postcards (1907-1913). Although these are in Russian, we can easily guess that they were published in Germany. Pigs are a symbol of prosperity and luck in Germany (along with toadstools, chimney sweeps, four leaf clover and mistletoe). These postcards are packed! :)
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New Year dinner essentials, the Soviet style (advertising posters from 1950s)
hyperallergic.com
Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the Space Race
Vintage Soviet postcards reveal a sophisticated political project, one that uses the allure of nostalgia to create a vision of a utopian, space-age future.
My postcards were featured in Hyperallergic!