Mizikevich garden in Odessa (Ukraine), winter 1979. Photo by Anatoly Vilkovich.
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 Yury Lunkov (1965)
Illustration from Murzilka magazine, 1968
Vintage New Year-themed leaflets included with store purchases (1950s)
1968
Orest Vereisky “By the Window” (1991)
Shoveling snow in Moscow (1959). Photo by Carl Mydans/LIFE.
Kievskaya metro station in Moscow. Photo by
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1954).
Mishka in space, illustration from Murzilka (1979)
Moscow metro (1963)
State Children’s Library in Moscow. Photo by Boris Kavashkin (1987)
This is so me when I was a kid!