Russian avant garde artist Varvara Stepanova at work (1924) ()
Born on October 23, 1894
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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Find the cosmonaut. Valentina Tereshkova among her friends, 19 July 1956 (age 19).
orky Park in Moscow (1950s)
Polytechnical Museum in Moscow (1964)
Ligovsky prospekt, Saint Petersburg (1930s)
There no trees on Ligovsky now.
Moscow in 1961
German tourist Inge Weidman travels on the Trans-Siberian Express, 1965 ()
I met quite a few foreign people who mentioned their dream of going on the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow to Vladivostok. I’ve never met a single Russian person who’d done that or thought about doing that. :)
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Mail Girls - art postcard by Vitaly Karkunov (1925—2006)
Art by Igor Pchyolko (1989)
“Bicycle Is Your Friend” by P. Ippolitov, vintage Soviet book published in 1929
“What Is Air Fleet?” book by N. Anoschenko. Cover design by I. Meisner. Published in 1923.