“Order of Victory” - lace work stored in Vologda Museum of Lace. Design by A. Korablyova, made by several masters of the lace artel in 1945.
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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“Snowflake” - lace tablecloth designed by Viktoriya Yelfina and handmade by 25 lacemakers in Vologda in 1959.
A tiny vintage book in the shape of a train and with Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poem “Whom Shall I Become?” quoted inside. Bits of the book cover are glow-in-the-dark. (Soviet Union, 1940s)
Soviet Union, 1940s
Photo by Georgiy Lipskerov
June 22, the day World War II started for the Soviet Union, is the Day of Remembrance and Mourning in Russia.
This is my grandfather, who just turned 17 at the time, 4 months after the war started. It’s a tiny photo that came to my posession a couple weekes ago, kindly passed on to me by my cousin twice removed during a big family gathering.
War is not parades. War is not showing it to someone. War is 17 year old boys wearing military uniform, killing and being killed. War is broken lives of an entire generation.
Never forget!
Помню. Скорблю.
Children and their toys (Soviet Union, 1940s-1970s)
Elton John in the Soviet Union (May 1979) (via)
Bonus: Elton John: To Russia With Elton (Full DVD)
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!!
August 9 is Tove Jansson’s birthday! The first photo here is the first of her books ever published in the Soviet Union (Moomins and the Comet Chase). The second photo shows all of her books published in the USSR. Most of her works were published in 1991-1992 - after the Soviet era.
You can find a comprehensive list of all Jansson’s book published in Russian here.
Tea packaging labels from the Soviet Union (1950s)
Teas were named after their locations: Tseylon tea, Indian tea, Georgian tea, Krasnodar tea (a city in the South of Russia), Azerbaijanian tea, Chinese tea. There was also the name of the tea packaging factory on the back of the pack.
(via)
Gorky Street and the view of the Historical Museum (Moscow, 1964)