Morning in the Mayakovsky-Briks apartment in Petersburg. Present: Vladimir Mayakovsky, Varvara Stepanova, Osip Beskin, Lilya Brik. Photo by Aleksandr Rodchenko (1926).
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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“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.)
Skiing on Neva River in Leningrad. Photo by Sigizmund Kropivnitsky (early 1950s).
Tula, 1960s (via Vladimir Scherbakov)
Katya Senibabnova in her winter attire. Photo by Yuri Sadovnikov (Nogliki, Sakhalin, Far East Russia). Feb. 1968.
Skiers on Leninsky Hills. Photo by Ivan Shagin (Moscow, 1950s).
A winter evening. Photo by Yuri Krivonosov (Moscow, 1956).
“In the red corner club”, photo by Boris Ignatovich (1928)
(Red corner, or red corner club in Soviet Russia was a space for social recreational activities as well as revolutional/propaganda meetings.)
Aleksey Gan, Soviet artist, director and publisher. Photo by Aleksandr Rodchenko (1920s)
Evening tea (USSR, 1920s)
Perfume shop in Russia (1920s)