![Buying New Year tree ornaments in Detsky Mir [Children’s World] department store in Moscow. Photo by A. Agapov (Dec. 1953).](https://64.media.tumblr.com/71249e35ed46d56af22c382c4b5e4937/42c5d4ce45f39119-8d/s1280x1920/e117273cc60b1115cc34f42558de597ff2977fff.jpg)
Buying New Year tree ornaments in Detsky Mir [Children’s World] department store in Moscow. Photo by A. Agapov (Dec. 1953).
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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The first New Year tree. Photo by D. Sholomovich (Moscow, Jan. 1965).
Children making tree ornaments. Photo postcard by M. Grachyov (1956).
Winter fun :)
New Year tree on the central square of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Photo by Yuri Sadovnikov (1967).
Happy New Year cake and other cakes at Bolshevik confectionery factory. Photo by V. Yegorov, A. Konkov (Moscow, 1960).
St Isaac’s Cathedral in Leningrad. Photo postcard by B. Cheremisina (1974).
A winter day on Nikitsky boulevard (Moscow, early 1950s)
Holiday crowd in the metro. Photo by M. Ozyorsky (Moscow, 1955).
And now I’m officially on holiday!
I’ll be out of town until Christmas (January 7). All my are 20% off in the meantime. Message me to reserve any items. I’ll be able to reply and work on orders after Jan. 7. Items are reserved on the first come first served basis.
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Happy New Year!!!
Vintage spun cotton tree ornament (USSR, 1930s). The bear’s backpack reads “Polar Post”.