I drove up to Nizhny Novgorod yesterday to visit the Sunday flea market and have a bit of a big city chill (eat out in hipster places, buy small run local-made shirts and ogle art nouveau architecture).
Hope you guys had a lovely Sunday too!
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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I was in Nizhny Novgorod yesterday and had a chance to visit their Sunday flea market. Luckily there was no rain! I got stocked up on pins, also got a bunch of postcards and stamps and an old tea box!
All of the pins I got! 75 in total. They’re all sooo pretty. 😍
Drop by the from time to time to see what’s new!
Art by Igor Pchyolko (1989)
Left: maple; right: box elder
Box elder tree is commonly called American maple in Russia! I’ve only just now learned that its actual name is ash-leaved maple when I looked up its English name on Wikipedia.
Autumn in Moscow (1980)
Green tea from Georgia - vintage Soviet advertising poster, late 1940s
History of Soviet aviation, set of stamps from 1978 ()
Moscow subway, Kirovskaya station. Postcard with a stamp affixed to the front, 1938.
Nizhny Tagil, Siberia, Russia (1950s)
Pushkinskaya square in Moscow, 1964
This photo speaks to me. I had a short period in my life when I woke up at 4, got a bunch of newspapers fresh off the print and walked around the designated area to put them up in the reading stands.