Many faces of Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) on Soviet New Year postcards
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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Vladimir Zarubin’s postcards (aka the cutest postcards in existence) featuring hares / rabbits. These are all from 1980s.
From my personal collection :)
Soviet New Year postcards ❤
1950s New Year postcards from the Soviet Union
Vintage postcards that say “Greetings from the New Year’s Leningrad!” (1950s)
Wonderful vintage holiday postcards from Russia ❤
Children sledding in Aleksandrovsky Garden by the walls of Moscow Kremlin. Photo by B. Trepetov, E. Yevzerikhin (1962).
Ruslan and Lyudmila. Photo by Yuri Krivonosov (Moscow, 1968).
The title is a reference to a famous fairy tale by Aleksandr Pushkin (”Ruslan and Lyudmila”). Lyudmila is the name of the shop spelled by neon letters.
A winter day on Nikitsky boulevard (Moscow, early 1950s)
Snow Cheburashka in Lytkarino, Moscow oblast. Photo by V. Dobrikov (1985).
Vintage spun cotton tree ornament (USSR, 1930s). The bear’s backpack reads “Polar Post”.