“Hero Pioneers” - vintage Soviet book from 1961. A collection of stories about young pioneers during patriotic wars.
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, pins and vintage finds from Russia.
Vintage Snow White bilingual book in Russian and English (1993)
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“January” by M. Sobelman, illustrated by V. Taleporovsky, 1929 ()
This little book is so beautiful!
“The Golden Meadow” by Mikhail Prishvin, illustrated by V. Goryacheva (1988)
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“Little Evergreen Tree” illustrated by V. Scherbakov (1948)
Album of photos of the city of Rybinsk (Yaroslavl region). Published in 1977. ()
From the “Food Industry” book, 1936. Designed by .
“Brother and Sister”, a fairytale. This book is a reproduction of antique Russian book from 1915. It uses the old Russian alphabet that was used before 1917. ()
“Mushrooms in the Forest and on Our Table” 1993 ()
Illustrations from book by Dagmara Khanashevich (1987).
I love the fact that boys are included in a crochet book.
1971 album of Gorky / Nizhny Novgorod ()
“I Crochet and Cross-stitch” by Dagmara Khanashevich, 1987 ()
Ellen Niit, “How We Looked for a Tree” (1954). Illustrated by Asta Vender and Olev Soans. Published in Estonia.
Russian fairy tales. “Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka”, “The White Duck”, illustrated by Ivan Bilibin, published in 1903 ()
This book was reprinted in 1986, it’s .
English-Russian dictionary of computer engineering (1984)
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