This blog is about old postcards, book illustration, history and culture of Russia and the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 10 years old.
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Covers of sheet music published in the Soviet Union. “Florida, American dance” and “Arizona, one-step [tango]” (1928-1929)
Moscow, February 4, 1990. The most massive protest in the history of the Soviet Union. 300 thousand people marched from the Crimean Bridge along the Garden Ring and Gorky Street (now Tverskaya) to the 50th Anniversary of October Square (Manezhnaya). The main demand of the protesters was to abolish Article 6 of the USSR Constitution that declared the leading role of the Communist Party.
“Music on the Bone” (музыка на костях) was one of the many ways the man fought the system. While a lot of music (especially Western music) was banned in the Soviet Union, bootleggers made illegal records using x-ray film.
These pictures are from the exhibition I visited in St Petersburg. I loved the recreated bootlegger’s room!
Exhibition curated by X-Ray Audio
Vintage DIY school help folder (for kids learning to read and count). If you want to play a parent in the Soviet Union and test your cut-and-paste skills, this is your chance. ()
Sheet music covers from 1925-1928 (Soviet Union).
Set of 15 vintage stamps commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Soviet Union (1957)
Soviet vintage notecard (1984)
It reads “7 October - the Soviet Union Constirution Day”
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USSR-made portable radio receivers from 1960s and 1980s (via )
August 9 is Tove Jansson’s birthday! The first photo here is the first of her books ever published in the Soviet Union (Moomins and the Comet Chase). The second photo shows all of her books published in the USSR. Most of her works were published in 1991-1992 - after the Soviet era.
You can find a comprehensive list of all Jansson’s book published in Russian here.
Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov