Greeting card by G. Filippov, 1978
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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Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) on postcards - 1959 ()
The city is still pretty much the same, but with heavier traffic.
“Park Bench” by Herluf Bidstrup, from this 1984
“That’s what semolina does!” - postcard by Yu. Severin and V. Chernukha (1956)
“The Cat’s House” illustration by Yury Vasnetsov, postcard from 1958
In my shop:
Tech design of the Soviet Union ()
Leningrad, mid-1970s
Soviet Design. Red Wealth exhibition in ADAM museum, Brussels ()
Kazakh Cuisine - Full set of 15 postcards (1977)
In my shop:
Soviet space pins
Wild Strawberry postcard, artist A. Dudnikov (1956)
The card says “Little Yegorka the red head lives in the forest. Whoever passes him, bows.”
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