“Good Bye”, music by Bor Lifshits. Sheet music cover (Kyiv, 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.
Poster for “The Lucky Rings”, designer M. Yevstafyev (USSR, 1929)
Pioneers, tractors, planes and wheat harvesting. Soviet fabrics from 1920s.
Printed designs for wall calendar holders (USSR, 1920s)
Book covers designed by Leonid Feinberg (USSR, 1920s)
Morning in the Mayakovsky-Briks apartment in Petersburg. Present: Vladimir Mayakovsky, Varvara Stepanova, Osip Beskin, Lilya Brik. Photo by Aleksandr Rodchenko (1926).
“Nowhere else but in Mosselprom: sausage, noodles, coffee, cocoa, chocolate, caramel, candy, tobacco, cigarettes, cigarette shells, beer, soft drinks, wine”.
Poster by D. Tarkhov, 1929.
(Mosselprom was a large grocery store in the center of Moscow.)
“Who Is Faster” by Yevgeny Shvarts (1928)
Author Mikhail Zoschenko buys apples. Photo by Boris Ignatovich (Petrograd, 1923).
Pavel Pastukhov. Illustrations for Yakov Meksin’s “Little Birdies” (1927).
“Tanya the Revolutionist” by Yelena Vereyskaya, illustrated by Tatyana Shishmaryova (1929)
“Rural Work”, coloring book illustrated by Boris Kustodiyev (1925)
Tree lichen. Photo by Mikhail Prishvin (1929).
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Cover of “Krasnaya Niva” [The Red Field] March 1926. Cover art by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin.
Cover of “The Bulletin of Knowledge”, 1926 (via Togda)