Winter in Moscow (1960s)
The building you can see in the background is the Moscow State University
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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1960s
Title page from Yevgeniya Trutneva’s book “Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn” illustrated by Sergey Kupriyanov (1966)
Book shop (1960s)
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.
Illustration from “Seasons”, a book by Irina Tokmakova. Artist Lev Tokmakov (1962)
“Metro” by Maria Strakhova, illustrated by Viktor Ivanov (1948)
Pictured on the cover of this book is the entrance to Krasnye Vorota metro station in Moscow.
Calligraphy from the Soviet Screen magazine, 1960s ()
Tatyana Yeryomina, “Holiday Shopping” (1953)