“Holiday greetings from Moscow!”
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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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