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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Agniya Barto “A Nice Evening” (1952). Illustrated by I. Bruni.
“It’s Alive and It Glows…” - children’s book by Viktor Dragunsky, illustrated by V. Goryayev (1961)
Russian textbook for primary school (1962)
Model Mila Romanovskaya next to a model of the spaceship Voskhod. Soviet Expo in London, August 1968.
Conifers. Illustrations from the Botanical Atlas by B. Shishkin (1963)
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Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Andrei Bolkonsky in the Soviet War and Peace movie (1966)
Calligraphy from the Soviet Screen magazine, 1960s ()
Irina Shevandronova “At A Rural Library (Readers)” 1962
Holiday lights in Leningrad (1968)