Author Mikhail Zoschenko buys apples. Photo by Boris Ignatovich (Petrograd, 1923).
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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Fountains of Peterhof, Russia (1926)
Saint Petersburg, Summer Gardens fence. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich, 1960s
Moskovsky train terminal in Saint Petersburg (1971)
The Summer Gardens in Saint Petersburg, photo by Yevgeny Khaldei (1954)
Saint Petersburg, 1975
Ligovsky prospekt, Saint Petersburg (1930s)
There no trees on Ligovsky now.
Leningrad, Zhelyabova street, 1987
(now Saint Petersburg, Bolshaya Konyushennaya st.)
Anichkov Bridge, Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), 1974
Leningrad in 1939, crossing of October 25 Prospect and Nakhimson Prospect (Saint Petersburg, Nevsky Prospect and Vladimirsky Prospect)
Soviet Union of the 1960s - photography by Vsevolod Tarasevich. We will be visiting his exhibition on March 10! (info)