Soviet art. “Bullfinches. Daycare.” Nikolai Ulyanov (1964)
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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Nadezhda Vorobyova “Children Outside in the Winter” (1960s)
Irina Shevandronova “At A Rural Library (Readers)” 1962
Photo by Yury Lunkov (1965)
Orest Vereisky “By the Window” (1991)
Title page from Yevgeniya Trutneva’s book “Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn” illustrated by Sergey Kupriyanov (1966)
Raisa Guseva “Sunny Side Up” (1985)
Underground crossing in Leningrad near Gostiny Dvor
Moscow metro (1963)
Such a cute little book reader :) Obviously, I googled the book she’s reading. It was quite hard to track, but it’s Sergey Mikhalkov’s “Jolly Travelers” from 1963. Yay.
Ded Moroz (Father Frost) and Snegurochka on the streets of Moscow (1968)