Arbatskaya Square in Moscow (1961)
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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I ransacked a school and I now have two wooden Lenins (one painted, the other pyrographed), Soviet Union anthem on plexiglas, hand-painted USSR emblem, and a bunch of cardboard-lined school charts. Treasures!!
Soviet radios. Covers of instruction booklets (1950s).
This was my morning today!
“Congratulations with the new school year” - card issued by Moscow Automobile Inspectorate featuring our favourite Gena the Crocodile toy. :)
Inside GUM (a historical mall bordering the Red Square), Moscow (1985)
“The sea is still, there is no storm. There will be fish for dinner.” Linocut by A. Kulakov.
Mushrooms. Illustration by Yu. Fyodorov (1956)
Students of Kiev Art Institute en plein air. Photo by Semyon Fridlyand (1950s)
Vegetable preserves. Pages from a 1956 catalogue.