Soviet Union of the 1960s - photography by Vsevolod Tarasevich. We will be visiting his exhibition on March 10! (info)
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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The Hermitage Art Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
From Ogonyok magazine, 1960s
Leningrad / Saint Petersburg
Sofya Perovskaya street in Leningrad (historic and current name Malaya Konyushennaya; Saint Petersburg), 1990
Leningrad, Zhelyabova street, 1987
(now Saint Petersburg, Bolshaya Konyushennaya st.)
Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), 1977
Leningrad in 1939, crossing of October 25 Prospect and Nakhimson Prospect (Saint Petersburg, Nevsky Prospect and Vladimirsky Prospect)
Anichkov Bridge, Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), 1974
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.
October 25th Prospect in Leningrad (current name: Nevsky Prospect in St Petersburg), Russia (1932)
Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov