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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Photo by Alexander Sentsov (1980)
I’m doing a creative contest over on twitter and this is the prize. Hope lots of people join! Handmade ornaments are fun. :)
Snow Queen illustration by Valery Alfeyevsky (postcard, 1963)
New Year postcards by Zinaida Vasina (1970s-1980s, Ukraine).
Children with candy boxes (traditional New Year gifts in the USSR)
Book shop (1960s)
Nadezhda Vorobyova “Children Outside in the Winter” (1960s)
Underground crossing in Leningrad near Gostiny Dvor
If I could cross-stitch at all this is definitely something I would want to make.