New set up in my shop — a wonderful 9-postcard set of autumn imagery from Boldino. The small village of Boldino is known to every Russian person as Alexander Pushkin’s haven where he spent his autumns and wrote his timeless love poetry.
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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 and vintage finds from Russia.
Spasskoye-Lutovinovo Estate Park: Savina’s Pond (1961) (via )
Ivan Turgenev’s family estate
1964
Uglich, Russia (1966)
1989
Happy birthday!
(by T. Narskaya)
Here’s to autumn.
(1959)
Photo by A. Stanovov, 1963
1986, photo by V. Datskevitch
“Autumn in Abramtsevo” by Vasily Polenov (1890), postcard published in 1957
in Leningrad (Sant Petersburg)
1986
Arkhangelskoye, Russia (1983)
