Cat plays gusli to lure out the sly Fox who stole his and Blackbird’s friend Rooster. Yevgeny Rachyov’s illustration for “The Golden Comb Rooster”, a Russian folk tale (1953).
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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Learn to write the letter Ю. Pages from “The ABC Book for Homeschooling” (1960).
The Lion Bridge in Leningrad. Photo by B. Rabinovich (May 1972).
“A Spring Day” by Stepan Yarovoy (1973)
May 9 (WWII Victory Day) is the day I think about my grandparents a lot. Unfortunately, I only knew one of them, my father’s father (bottom row). All others died before I could talk. All of them survived the WWII. Grandfather Serafim (top row) was a train driver. Grandmother Masha (top row) was a nurse and also worked on a train. That’s how they met - on railroad. Grandfather Tolya was a tank pointer during the war, and an optics physysist after. Grandma Nadya was a doctor, after the war she worked as a pediatrician.
I try to learn more about them and what kind of people they were. Sometimes I see in me something that I clearly got from them and it’s crazy.
Tell me about your grandparents, especially those who aren’t with us anymore. Let’s remember them.
![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).
“Vegetable Garden” by Sergey Markov, illustrated by Nikolai Leman (1928)
Soft and alcohol drinks from the Soviet Union. Page from the first edition of the Book of Tasty and Healthy Foods (1939).
“Boys” by Olga Bogayevskaya (1981)
“May Day. Marching for the October” by Ya. Miller, illustrated by M. Shtern (1931)
“Gardeners” by Nikolai Nosov, cover art by Georgiy Yudin (1978)