“Daughter of the North” by N. Baranova (1977)
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.
New Year’s party on the ice rink. Picture by Konstantin Rotov, as published in Funny Pictures (1956)
(look at full size for the many details)
The October holiday. Illustration by Tatyana Yeryomina.
Illustration by Yevgeny Charushin
Illustration from “Rainbow-Bow” (a book of nursery rhymes) by Yuri Vasnetsov, 1969.
“You’re not welcome right now, rain, pouring as if from a bucket*.
Hedgehog must hurry - it has a lesson soon.”
(*Of rain, to pour as if from a bucket is a common Russian idiom meaning a really heavy rain, in sheets.)
Illustration from Murzilka magazine, Oct. 1957
“Ear to ear, there’s a sheaf for Motherland“
Kolobok magazine, Oct. 1978
Cover of Funny Pictures children’s magazine (USSR, Sep. 1988)
“Flowers for Birthday” by Yevgeny Komarov (1950s)
Riddle illustrated by Vladimir Suteyev (1953)
What’s the girl’s name?
Where is the elephant?
Where is the girl’s brother, what is he doing and what’s his name?
Where are the cat and the dog?
How many fishes are there in the aquarium?
Illustration by Tatyana Kolyusheva
Весёлые картинки. 1973. Август
“How Lesik picked mushrooms”. Illustration by G. Riznik, published in Funny Pictures, Aug. 1973.
Help the cosmonauts return to their ships.
Illustration by V. Bochkov, published in Kolobok (Aug 1982).
Cover of Kolobok magazine, Aug 1982
“Tennis Match”, lithograph by M. Butrova (1940)