Yuri Vasnetsov. Illustration for Russian folk tale “The Three Bears” (postcard, 1941)
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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“Congratulations to our dear teacher!” - Teachers’ Day postcard from Ukraine (1971)
Soviet cologne machine that sprayed 3 g of cologne for a 15 kopeck coin. Made in Leningrad in 1959.
Soviet Teachers’ Day postcards. It was celebrated in the USSR on the first Sunday of October. Celebrated in Russia on October 5.
Moscow in 1976. Photos by Roger Lipsett.
Golden taiga. Photo by Ivan Shagin (Krasnoyarsk, 1960s).
Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1957)
The Red Square in Moscow. Photo by Naum Granovsky (1958).
Illustration from Murzilka magazine (September 1951)
The forest was very wet today so I was glad I wore my rainboots. I think it was our last mushroom run of the season. It gets below zero at night and that means the end of the mushroom season. I have enough to last me through the winter!
I hope you enjoyed my mushrooms posts. :)