Olympic-themed cake made in Romashka (Daisy) bakery shop in Minsk, Belarus (1980)
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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Robert Avotin. Illustration for Vladimir Scherbakov’s “Red Horses” (USSR, 1976)
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“Exclamation Point” by A. Raskin and M. Slobodsky. Cover art by K. Rotov (USSR, 1939)
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Ducks above the pond in Moscow’s Botanical Garden, photo by Alexander Sentsov (1987)
Haberdashery shop on Lenin Street in Riga, Latvia (1968)