Macaroni penguins (called in Russian golden-haired penguins) in the Moscow Zoo. Photo by V. Koshevoy (1950).
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.
Dasha the bear cub flies to Prague. Photo by Vladimir Medvedev, 1987.
Bunnies. Illustration by Yevgeny Charushin (1939).
Mother hare and her baby hare. Illustration by Yevgeny Charushin as published in Chizh magazine, 1939.
Bear with cubs. Postcard by V. Vatagin (1961).
![Zhemchuzhnaya [Pearly] with her puppies. Zhemchuzhnaya made a suborbital flight in February 1959.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/5f3da9bc39c4d0f0180ccc5588bdbce8/fd82ef8729441bb8-9e/s1280x1920/59c9b74da649ac730c0af90ebda69f249faca977.jpg)
Zhemchuzhnaya [Pearly] with her puppies. Zhemchuzhnaya made a suborbital flight in February 1959.
Artist Yevgeny Charushin who we all love for his cute animal illustrations - born on November 11, 1901.
Photo by Mikhail Prishvin (between 1928 and 1936)
Moscow, 1970s
Foundling. Photo by Igor Gnevashev (1967).
Roe deer in the Moose Island Nature Reserve. Photo by A. Kholodov (Moscow oblast, 1989).
Amur tiger on the coast of the Sea of Japan. Russia, Primorsky Krai, Sikhote-Alinsky Nature Reserve.
Photo by Viktor Voronin (1985-1990).
Tambov, 1950s
Photo by V. Kuprov, published in Ogonyok in April 1983
“Who are you?” Photo by Georgiy Argiropulo (1970s)