“Vegetable Garden” by Sergey Markov, illustrated by Nikolai Leman (1928)
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.
A book stand in Moscow (1927)
Eagle-owl. Autolithograph by Yevgeny Charushin (1929).
“Of Awls, Pliers and All Sorts of Things” by Eduard Krimmer and Semyon Polotsky (1928)
Moscow, 1920s
Street seller. Moscow, 1920s.
“Rainbow” by Samuil Marshak, illustrated by P. Pastukhov (1926)
“The Bear” by Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, illustrated by A. Komarov and I. Topikov (1929)
“Postoiko” by Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, illustrated by A. Komarov (1928)
“Portrait Of Mrs. Feshin With Daughter” by Nikolai Feshin (1925)
Nikolai Feshin was a Russian artist, he emigrated to the US in 1923.
View of the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street (Moscow, late 1920s)
“Frost the Red Nose” by Nikolai Nekrasov, illustrated by A. Komarov (1923)
“Girls of the USSR”, picture book by A. Borisov (1929).
Top to bottom: Samoyed, Ukrainian, Russian.
“Balloons” by Yevgeny Schwartz, illustrated by Aleksey Yefimov (1926)
1920s Soviet propaganda fabrics from the collection of the Kosygin Museum of Art Textiles and Costume