Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov
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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Students of Komsomol school of home economics. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin (USSR, 1960s).
Russian Folk Tales illustrated by Yuri Vasnetsov (1976)
Hardback with dust cover, 86 pages. Lots of color illustrations. Significant handling wear on pages and (especially) dust cover. Must have been read many times, but still holds strong. Coated paper. Quite a rare edition.
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Children’s book about birds by N. Orekhovsky, illustrated by Leonid Feinberg (1930).
(The book’s name is imitating some bird sounds, so I won’t even try to translate it.)
Wooden painted dolls of Soviet republics (Zagorsk, 1950s)
“Daughter of the North” by N. Baranova (1977)
Matchbox labels from Pinsk Match Factory in Belarus (1960)
Book covers designed by Leonid Feinberg (USSR, 1920s)
Vintage book “Pusselchen” (Baby Animals) in German, published in Soviet Russia in 1979
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The Little Humpbacked Horse by Pyotr Yershov, illustrated by Nikolai Kochergin - this 1971 book was published in the USSR in English ()
“We are on guard of the harvest” - illustration by K. Artseulov from a book about Soviet pioneer hero Pavlik Morozov (USSR, 1936)