Nikolai Ustinov. Illustration for Mikhail Prishvin’s “The Fox’s Bread” (1981).
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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Took these yesterday in my friend’s garden! That’s honeysuckle, the first berry of the season.
Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1962)
“Summer” by Aleksandra Saikina (1987)
“Visitors in the Artist’s Studio” by T. Fedotova (1981)
All-Union Agricultural Expo. Pavilions of Agriculture, Mechanization, and Animal husbandry.
Illustration by A. Yermolayev, as published in Murzilka in Aug. 1954.
Children on a carousel in Volzhsky City Park. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1967).
“Mira Street” by Grigory Goncharov (1959)
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Cover of Kostyor [Campfire] youth magazine, May 1960
By lake Ritsa in Abkhazia. Photo by Vladislav Mikosha, Boris Makaseyev (1952).
Bicycle travellers in Moscow oblast, Russia (1985)