I won’t be around tomorrow (day trip!), so here’s for an early Caturday:
Photo by Yuri Sadovnikov (1970s)
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.
Folk tales of the North. Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov (USSR, 1968).
More pages from that book, here.
“Grandma Tanya” by Maya Koveshnikova (1983)
Children with a kitten. Photo by Viktor Yershov (Cheboksary, Russia, 1973)
“Saturday” by Yuri Kugach (1964)
Sergey Batovrin and his cat (1980s)
Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1960s)
Maria Nikolayevna Kogochkova and a cat. Photo by Boris Skobeltsyn (1960s)
“Gusev Cleans His Apartment”, photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1958)
Nelidovo, Kalinin oblast, Russia. Photo by Nikolai Palamodov (1959)
Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky in Izvestia newspaper office (c. 1926)
Cat in the window of a grocery store on Nevsky Prospect in Leningrad. Spring of 1987.
Stills from “Kuzya the Little Domovoi” cartoons directed by Aida Zyablikova (1984-1987)
Domovoi is a Russian folk character, like a house elf.