Hey guys! I’m back from a 3-day yoga retreat feeling so happy and content. :) I hope you’re all doing great!
Yoga wasn’t widely popular back in the USSR (but I know that some people did practise it), but physical culture in the Soviet Union was huge, and doing morning warm up routines was a common thing.
Enamel cigarette cases designed at Pavel Ovchinnikov’s manufactory (Russia, end of 19th cent.)
Moskovsky prospect in Leningrad (1972)
Metro station in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (1978)
Find the same flowers in the grass as those in the sky. Write in corresponding letters and read the result.
Illustration by G. Sokolov, published in Murzilka in July 1978.
United States as seen by Soviet artist Orest Vereisky (1960s)
Illustrations for Mikhail Prishvin’s short stories by F. Glebov (postcards from 1956)
Photo by Nina Sviridova and Dmitry Vozdvizhensky
GUM (department store in Moscow) in 1984