New Year holiday show in Kremlin (1976)
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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December covers of Kostyor, a Soviet youth magazine (1950s-1960s)
Hotel bar at the National in Moscow (1970). I dig the samovar.
Good morning! How about a ski walk in the forest? :)
Illustration to Kornei Chukovsky’s book “Fedora’s Woe”, artist Vladimir Konashevich. (That’s the one where Fedora was such a slob that her kitchenware decided to walk.)
Nevsky pocket radio, USSR 1984
Artist Yevgeny Rachyov at work
Soviet wooden toys, 1960s
Children in Leningrad (1950s)
Orest Vereisky “By the Window” (1991)