Vintage toys. Bear rattle from Ukraine, Zhiguli cars from Russia, roly poly doll from Czechoslovakia. (Collection of Ivan Druzhinin.)
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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Arkhangelsk Oblast of Russia (1974)
Khreshchatyk street in Kyiv (1972)
View of Moscow (1956)
“Who was in which class? I was in A”
“Oh I was in A too”
“I was in B”
“I was in A and in B”
Foreigners:
(In Russian school, each year is divided into groups of 25-30 people called class. They’re labeled A, B, С etc, for example in year 11 there will be 11A and 11B. So everyone in Russia is an A-kid, a B-kid, a C-kid etc.)
“Lady With a Mouse” by Yuri Vasnetsov (1932-1934)
A page from a 1985 exhibition catalogue.
A house in Uglich, Russia (1981)
Illustration from the Funny Pictures magazine
Rain in Leningrad (1969)
The Winter Palace in Leningrad (1974)