Squirrel. Lithograph by M. Orlova. Soviet postcard from 1950.
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration, history and culture of Russia and the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 10 years old.
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Moscow’s Bread and Confectionery Factory No. 3. Photo by Valentin Khukhlaev (July 10, 1974).
“High Noon” by Arkady Plastov (1961)
Rain on Neglinnaya street. Photo by Anatoly Lindorf (Moscow, 1957).
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Children’s books of fairy tales published in the USSR in 1936-37
“Sun on Our Flower Bed” by A. Garf, illustrated by G. Bedarev (1969)