Illustration by Aleksandr Deyneka for A. Pravdina’s short story “Four Tos’kas” (1930)
(Tos’ka—Тоська—is a cat’s name and also a woman’s name. Antonina → Tosya → Tos’ka)
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.
“The Cat Who Walked By Himself”, Soviet 1968 cartoon after Rudyard Kipling’s story.
Cat from the “Kuzya the Domovoy” cartoon series (1984-1987)
Photo by Yuri Khromushin
The cat who’s never been on Tahiti.
“The Return of the Prodigal Parrot” (USSR, 1984).
Pup and Matilda the cat from “Carlsson Returns”, a Soviet 1970 cartoon.
Photo by Vladimir Sychyov (Moscow, 1970s)
Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Armenia, 1960s)
I won’t be around tomorrow (day trip!), so here’s for an early Caturday:
Photo by Yuri Sadovnikov (1970s)
Folk tales of the North. Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov (USSR, 1968).
More pages from that book, here.
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)
Cat in the window of a grocery store on Nevsky Prospect in Leningrad. Spring of 1987.