“Nowhere else but in Mosselprom: sausage, noodles, coffee, cocoa, chocolate, caramel, candy, tobacco, cigarettes, cigarette shells, beer, soft drinks, wine”.
Poster by D. Tarkhov, 1929.
(Mosselprom was a large grocery store in the center of Moscow.)
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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