Skiing on Neva River in Leningrad. Photo by Sigizmund Kropivnitsky (early 1950s).
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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Morning in the Mayakovsky-Briks apartment in Petersburg. Present: Vladimir Mayakovsky, Varvara Stepanova, Osip Beskin, Lilya Brik. Photo by Aleksandr Rodchenko (1926).
A 30-piece Matryoshka doll made at “Igrushka” wooden toy factory in Semyonov. Photo by V. Izvolensky (1966).
A winter evening. Photo by Yuri Krivonosov (Moscow, 1956).
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Space veterans Kozyavka (flew twice in 1956) and Otvazhnaya [Brave Girl] (flew twice in 1958).
Winter. A woman with two buckets goes to fetch some water. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1950s).
The State Russian Museum in Leningrad (1984)
Isaakiyevskaya Square in Leningrad. Photo by Boris Kosarev (1960s).
Bankovsky bridge in Leningrad, best known as the bridge with griffins. Photo postcard by B. Rabinovich (1972).
Towards the finish line. Postcard by Ya. Titov (1957).
Inna Malfygina and friends jogging in the snow. Photo by Valentin Khukhlayev (Moscow, 1955).