“Buy postage stamps!” - vintage pocket calendars encouraging people to collect stamps (1970s-1980s)
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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Vintage ads. Develop photographs in local photo shops (1980s)
Vera, Nadezhda, Lyubov (Russian female names that literally mean Faith, Hope, Love). Antique postcards from early 1900s.
The Red Square in Moscow, early 1950s. Today there are no cars there, it’s a pedestrian area.
The most comprehensive compilation of Bilibin’s works ever published in the Soviet Union.
Cover of Funny Pictures from May 1971
Novosibirsk in 1966. Photos by Georg Oddner.
Pages from an ABC book illustrated by V. Lebedev (1925)
“A Tale About Turkmen Watermelon”, illustration by Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vasilyev (1971)
Illustration for Russian folk tale The Little Turnip by I. Belopolskaya and I. Komarov (1970)