Among the things I love are old timey handwritten letters. I love those handwritings. You can tell they’re from a different generation.
Pictured: handwritten letters from children book authors Kornei Chukovsky and Samuil Marshak (1950s-60s)
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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Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) on record covers from 1950s and 1960s.
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Soviet space-themed QSL cards, 1950s-1960s (via)
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A road in Kabardino-Balkaria, Central Caucasus (1941)