“Blouses and Skirts 1966-1967”, cover of a vintage sewing pattern book
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)
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)
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.
“Loss of Sensation” film advertisement on Pushkin Square in Moscow. Photo by Boris Vdovenko (May 1935).
Cover of the Soviet Photo, April 1957
Poster of “The Office Romance” film (USSR, 1977)
A dog, a boy and a bird house (1957)
“Tick Tock” by Sergey Sabashnikov, illustrated by V. Tvardovsky (1943). Printed during the war on reverse side of a non-related poster.
A book stand in Moscow (1927)