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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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“Spring in Abramtsevo”, linocut by Ilya Sokolov (1956)
A new house on the 9th Five-Year Plan Street in Cheboksary. Photo by Viktor Yershov (1973).
Children’s books about mothers (USSR 1950s-70s)
Women’s Day postcard by Vladimir Zarubin (1987)
Two vintage decorative pieces with printed design from 1980s - a handtowel and a table runner or window runner. The pattern is I think Ukrainian.
The towel is cotton, size 40 × 69 cm (15.7″ × 27.2″). It has 3 yellowish spots like the one in photo 2.
The runner is 37 × 164 cm (14.6″ × 64.6″). It’s a different kind of fabric, soft to the touch and flowing.
Price: $14 for both + $15 shipping
View of the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street (Moscow, late 1920s)
Yuri Gagarin on covers of the Soviet Photo magazine, 1961 and 1971
Nevsky Prospect in Leningrad (1977)
“The Crimean Meridian” (1981)
A book of color and black-and-white photographs of Crimea in all its different ways: beaches, mountains, forests, historical sites. The book mostly includes photos of nature, including close ups of flowers and birds/animals.
Hardcover. 168 pages. Text in Ukrainian, Russian and English.
Good vintage condition, minor handling wear.
$20 + $24 shipping
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Mailwoman Vera Kirinicheva. Photo by Aleksandr Steshanov (Moscow, 1980s).