Squirrel. Mai Miturich, illustration for a Vitaly Bianki book (1989).
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.
Vladimir Savich. Illustrations for Valentina Kovtun’s “The Merry Zoo” (Belarus SSR, 1986).
Moscow Zoo. Photo by V. Akimov (1952).
The Cat and the Dog. Photo by Vladimir Bogdanov (1980s).
Wild boars in Belovezhskaya Pushcha forest reserve. Photo by M. Savin (1986).
Hedgehog having breakfast. Photo by Roman Podaerni (USSR, 1987)
Owl and hedgehog. Illustration by Yevgeny Charushin.
Hares with carrots - porcelain figurines made at Leningrad Porcelain Factory. The model was designed by Yevgeny Charushin in 1950.
The forgotten story of Vera Chaplina — the Moscow zookeeper who raised a lion in her communal apartment in the 1930s.
A calf in the room, photo by Pavel Maksimov (Russia, 1991)
Bear in Kamchatka. Photo by Vitaly Nikolayenko (1985)
Mansi cattle camp. Photo by Anatoly Grakhov (1973)
(The Mansi are an indigenous peoples of Russia.)
Photo by Aleksandr Rubashkin (1970)
Photo by Valery Bysov (Belarus)
“Autumn’s Hedgehog” by Valery Bysov (1977)