“Summer” by Nikolai Piskaryov (1940s)
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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Sandy beaches of Nida, Lithuania (1968)
“Strawberries” by Igor Kornilov (linocut, 1958)
Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1962)
Cover of the Funny Pictures, May 1990. Illustrated by Valery Gorbatchyov.
Bicycle travellers in Moscow oblast, Russia (1985)
Entrance to the Krasnyye Vorota metro station in Moscow (1946)
At the Volga slope. Photo by Nikolai Moshkov (Gorky, 1984).
Children in Artek, a pioneer camp in Crimea. Photo by Nikolai Popov (1940s).
Watching the baby. Photo by Igor Gnevashev (Moscow, 1960s).
By lake Ritsa in Abkhazia. Photo by Vladislav Mikosha, Boris Makaseyev (1952).