Postcards of Moscow’s Sokolniki park, photographed by Ivan Shagin (1960s)
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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Dining hall. Photo by Mikhail Smodor (1931).
Chocolate truffles. Poster designed by A. Prokoptsev (USSR, 1938).
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“Three from Prostokvashino” (1978)
“The North of My Vast Homeland” by Vladimir Shtranikh (1965)
View of the Novodevichy Monastery in Moscow. Photo by Paul Popper (1960).
“Siskin-Kingson” (Chizh-Korolevich; the protagonist’s nickname) by Vladimir Arro, illustrated by Olga Davydova (1968)
Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow (late 1930s)