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.
Textbooks printed at Kalinin Print Factory. Photo by Aleksey Gostev (1983).
Saltykov-Schedrin State Public Library (currently called the National Library of Russia). Leningrad, 1960s.
“October Songs” by Natan Vengrov. Illustrated by A. Petrova, L. Popova, N. Tuganov (USSR, 1927).
Lenin monument in Kineshma, Ivanovo oblast, Russia (1966)
First Steps. Photo by Vladimir Bogdanov (1976).
