Envelope with the full series of stamps dedicated to VSHV (currently ), cancelled on the first day of issue - August 1, 1939.
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration and all kinds of paper whimsy from the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 7 years old. I have an etsy shop for cards, books, pins and vintage finds from Russia.
New Year USSR 1935 (by )
by V. Livanova and M. Ioffe (1937)
Все на выборы Президента Российской Федерации 4 марта 2012 г.!
Mikhaylovskoye. House of Alexander Pushkin’s nanny (c. 1939)
Moscow. Sverdlov Square (now — Teatralnaya)
1938
Statue in the royal park of Pavlovsk (near Leningrad).
Hockey game (c. 1939)
Mikhaylovskoye. House of Alexander Pushkin’s nanny (c. 1939)
Moscow. Square of Nogin.
Crimean Night, 1938
Swallow’s Nest, a Neo-Gothic châteaux fantastique near Yalta (Crimea, Ukraine).
1930s.
“Artek” pioneer camp, 1935
Moscow, 1939
Map of the Crimea peninsula, 1930
