“How I Met the New Year” written and illustrated by Viktor Golyavkin (1963)
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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Vintage postcards that say “Greetings from the New Year’s Leningrad!” (1950s)
Happy New Year cake and other cakes at Bolshevik confectionery factory. Photo by V. Yegorov, A. Konkov (Moscow, 1960).
Ded Moroz, Snegurochka and children at a Kremlin New Year party (1950s)
Holiday crowd in the metro. Photo by M. Ozyorsky (Moscow, 1955).
Soviet New Year postcards ❤
“In the Streetcar” by E. Kibrik (1940)
Krasnaya Presnya st. in Moscow (1982)
Samuil Marshak, Soviet children’s book author. Book covers (1948-1962)
Folk tales of the North. Book illustrated by Kirill Ovchinnikov (USSR, 1968).
Lev Tokmakov. Illustrations from “Letter After Letter” by Yakov Akim (USSR, 1964)