Leningrad / Saint Petersburg
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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The Hermitage Art Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
From Ogonyok magazine, 1960s
Leningrad, Zhelyabova street, 1987
(now Saint Petersburg, Bolshaya Konyushennaya st.)
Rain in Leningrad, July 1960
St Isaac’s cathedral in Leningrad, 1957
Ostrovsky square in Saint Petersburg (Catherine II monument,
Alexandrinsky theater in the background), 1955
Alexandrinsky theater in Saint Petersburg, 1955
The Summer Gardens in Saint Petersburg, photo by Yevgeny Khaldei (1954)
Saint Petersburg, Manezhnaya square (1967)
Saint Petersburg, 1975
Vintage New Year card by Aeroflot, the Soviet airlines