Rehearsal of bayan class at the children’s music school in Zhigulyovsk, Kuibyshev region. Photo by Arkady Shaikhet (1954).
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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A picnic in the wild. Soviet Union, 1950s.
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.
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Tea time à la Soviet Union—jam, lemon and Crawfish hard candy (early 1950s)
Cakes and chocolates from the Soviet Union (1950s)
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.
Visit the USSR in Winter. Soviet INTURIST poster (1950s)
(Inturist was an organization that invited and assisted foreign tourists in the USSR.)
“Music on the Bone” (музыка на костях) was one of the many ways the man fought the system. While a lot of music (especially Western music) was banned in the Soviet Union, bootleggers made illegal records using x-ray film.
These pictures are from the exhibition I visited in St Petersburg. I loved the recreated bootlegger’s room!
Exhibition curated by X-Ray Audio
Rubber toys from Soviet Union (1950s) (via Vsevolod Ladifyan)
Biscuit packaging, Soviet Union, 1950s (via)
Top: Lemon biscuits, bottom: Orange biscuits
Vintage tea box from the Soviet Union, 1950s ()
I have the very same tea box from my grandparents! I use it as my default box for loose green tea. I love it. Mine has less color left in it though, it’s almost silver. I was quite surprised to find out that it was originally yellow. :)