“Painters in Shah-i-Zinda“ by Pavel Benkov (1943)
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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Soviet art. “Picking Flowers” by Gleb Barabanschikov (1945)
Soviet Union, 1940s
Photo by Georgiy Lipskerov
Soviet art. “Still Life” by Anton Yastrzhemsky (1940s)
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)
Moscow, February 4, 1990. The most massive protest in the history of the Soviet Union. 300 thousand people marched from the Crimean Bridge along the Garden Ring and Gorky Street (now Tverskaya) to the 50th Anniversary of October Square (Manezhnaya). The main demand of the protesters was to abolish Article 6 of the USSR Constitution that declared the leading role of the Communist Party.
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.
Flowers in Russian and Soviet art - vintage postage stamps from 1979 ()
Soviet art. “Bullfinches. Daycare.” Nikolai Ulyanov (1964)
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.
