“Women’s Dept”. Art postcard by S. Prokhorov (Ukraine, 1927).
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.
“Airship - a powerful means of transportation and communication with the Soviet North” (Postcard, 1920s)
![Gostorg [State Trade] building in Moscow. Postcard from 1929.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/c29acfe6d0c2ca6eabcf3f93783b52e2/746842e5afdb94bb-21/s1280x1920/1be2592f79dcb23aed3206aab0e08aed44f9d798.jpg)
Gostorg [State Trade] building in Moscow. Postcard from 1929.
Art by P. Kotov (Soviet postcard, 1920s)
Samarkand by A. Isupov (postcards from 1920s)
Vintage postcard from the US commemorating transcontinental flight between Moscow and New York performed by a team of Soviet flyers in 1929. They covered 21,242 km (13,194 mi) in 137 flying hours.
Finch and goldfinch, Soviet postcard from 1920s
Leningrad/St Petersburg - postcards from 1929
“Pioneers Bathing”, Soviet postcard from 1920s.
Portrait of Leo Tolstoy by Nikolai Ge from the collection of Tretyakov Gallery.
Postcard printed in 1928.
Cut-off postcard. USSR, 1928.
Pictured is Harry Liedtke, a German film actor.
These postcards came in a sheet and were cut off with scissors at the time of sale.
Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), 1920s
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Grocery store (1923)