Tverskoy Boulevard, Moscow (1961)
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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“Blouses and Skirts 1966-1967”, cover of a vintage sewing pattern book
One of the reading halls in the All-Union State Library of Foreign Literature. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin (1967).
“A Breath of Spring” by Nelli Baranchuk (1960s)
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.
![Sverdlov street [Bolshaya Pokrovskaya] in Gorky [Nizhny Novgorod]. Photo by Viktor Borodin (1960s).](https://64.media.tumblr.com/ce013cbbaf3d228550d7cb1c80b11592/0ed7a21049bb93d3-20/s1280x1920/54391457023b308a3aab61c439bfc920b68ea7cc.jpg)
Sverdlov street [Bolshaya Pokrovskaya] in Gorky [Nizhny Novgorod]. Photo by Viktor Borodin (1960s).
A book stand in Moscow (1927)
“Tick Tock” by Sergey Sabashnikov, illustrated by V. Tvardovsky (1943). Printed during the war on reverse side of a non-related poster.
“Loss of Sensation” film advertisement on Pushkin Square in Moscow. Photo by Boris Vdovenko (May 1935).
Soviet milkshake maker Voronezh-2.
It was often seen in cafeterias. Our local ice cream café had two of these when I was a kid.