“A Breath of Spring” by Nelli Baranchuk (1960s)
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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Tverskoy Boulevard, Moscow (1961)
“Blouses and Skirts 1966-1967”, cover of a vintage sewing pattern book
A dog, a boy and a bird house (1957)
Coffee, cocoa, flour, milk spaghetti soup, buckwheats, pea soup, cranberry kissel, orange kissel.
Foods made by the Moscow Mikoyan Food Processing Plant. Illustration from the first edition of “The Book of Delicious and Healthy Food”, 1939.
“April. The Veranda” by Boris Domashnikov (1970s)
One of the reading halls in the All-Union State Library of Foreign Literature. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin (1967).
Vintage enamel pin of birds. Size 1.1″.
Available: robin (#3).
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“Tick Tock” by Sergey Sabashnikov, illustrated by V. Tvardovsky (1943). Printed during the war on reverse side of a non-related poster.
Photo by Dmitry Baltermants (Moscow, 1958)
On Chistoprudny Boulevard. Photo by Vladimir Yatsina (Moscow, 1986).