VDNKh metro station and the Space Conquerors monument behind it (Moscow, 1971)
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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Chocolate truffles. Poster designed by A. Prokoptsev (USSR, 1938).
View of the Novodevichy Monastery in Moscow. Photo by Paul Popper (1960).
Vladimir Konashevich. Cover for Kornei Chukovsky’s “The Telephone” (1969 edition).
“Siskin-Kingson” (Chizh-Korolevich; the protagonist’s nickname) by Vladimir Arro, illustrated by Olga Davydova (1968)
Vintage poster (1973)
“To collectors and lovers of pins!
We invite you to Soyuzpechat shops and kiosks! Here you can always buy pins of various themes and shapes. You will be offered badges from the Leniniana* series, with coats of arms of cities, portraits of great people, images of architectural ensembles and monuments, and many, many others.”
*Leniniana = anything to do with Vladimir Lenin
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Café Molodyozhnoye [Youth’s] on Gorky Street, Moscow (1961)
Small zodiac pins (¾”)
Available: Aries, Gemini, Leo*, Virgo, Capricorn
*Leo is available in two colors: red and dark green
$3.50 for one + $5 shipping
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Moscow of 1950s photographed by Ivan Shagin
Vintage enamel pin, ⌀ 1¾”
$8 + $5 shipping
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Cover of “The Bulletin of Knowledge”, 1926 (via Togda)