Art Nouveau book covers from Russia.
Poems of S. Nadson (1909)
Bakhchisarai Fountain, Alexander Pushkin (1892)
Essays of the Newest History, I. Grigorovich (c. 1900)
T. Passek’s Memoirs (1905)
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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“Moscow in the past and in the present day”, history books from 1909-1912.
Postcard by K. Zotov (1960)
View of the Moscow Kremlin, Historical museum and the Red Square. Photo by Peter Turnley (1986)
Let me share some pics from my birthday dinner party! I took out my grandmother’s hand-embroidered table cloth, our heirloom china and tableware. The fruit vase (although you can’t really see it in the picture) is a wonderful cloisonné specimen. Notable mention to my IFZ porcelain cup that is not vintage, but still very fine. All of this we don’t use in our daily life, so having them out made it feel like a real feast.
Set of 10 postcards with illustrations for Ivan Krylov fables, illustrated by M. Taranov (1956)
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“Thought After Thought”, an exquisitely designed diary published in Saint Petersburg in 1885.
