“The beauty of the field” (promo flyer from VDNKh agricultural exhibition in Moscow, 1950s)
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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April 12 - Cosmonautics Day. Maxicard / first day cover. 1984 postcard with a topical stamp and postmark. Artist Yu. Artsimenev.
There’s also a typewritten shop label that goes along with it, it quotes the title of the product and states the price - 22 kopecks.
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“Participant of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition, Hero of Social Labor and Komsomol member Yekaterina Kim tells Ashgabat schoolgirls Valeria Maslova, Nina Yeltanskaya and Lilia Ryzhova about the successes of her team.“
Photo by V. Smetanin from the Ogonyok magazine, Moscow, 1953. (x)
Learning to sew. Photo by Mikhail Prekhner (1930s).
TV set in a hospital hall. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1967).
Monument to author Ivan Krylov in the Summer Garden, Leningrad (1979)
Leonid Vladimirsky. Illustrations for Aleksandr Volkov’s “The Wizard of the Emerald City” (1959).
Moscow (1959)
Kitten with chocolates and champagne. Vintage photo postcard from 1957. Written on the back.
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Evening tea with grandson. Anton Ivanovich Karpunin and Domna Ivanovna Karpunina. Lyubertsy, Moscow oblast. Photo by Valentin Khukhlayev (March 19, 1949).
“Moscow Motifs” (1975)
Photo book with pictures of Moscow. Some doodles on the endpaper (see the last photo).
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