A sunny day on Arbatskaya Square. Photo by Dmitry Baltermants (Moscow, 1958).
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.
Tea cup with saucer. Dulyovo Porcelain Factory, USSR 1960s.
“Animal Voices of Moscow’s Forests”, record sleeve illustrated by Aleksey Isakov (1987)
V. Sergeyev, illustration for a Boris Zakhoder’s poem for children, “Magic” (1980s)
Stakhanovite worker Mukaram Kamigova in the apple orchard of the Yangiyul garden-sovkhoz. Photo by Miron Penson (Uzbekistan, 1952).
“If I shoot the balloon I’ll ruin it!”
“But if you don’t, you’ll ruin me!”
Winnie the Pooh (USSR, 1969)
“Vegetable Garden” by Sergey Markov, illustrated by Nikolai Leman (1928)
Komsomolskaya Square in Moscow, aka the Square of Three Railway Stations. Photo by Klaus-Erich Lisk (1977).
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Sverdlov street [Bolshaya Pokrovskaya] in Gorky [Nizhny Novgorod]. Photo by Viktor Borodin (1960s).
Soup for lunch. Photo by Yuri Korolyov (Moscow, 1956).
A book stand in Moscow (1927)
Bicycle rally in Arzamas-16 (1970s)
Nikolai Ustinov. Illustration for Lev Kuzmin’s poem, “The Man Who Was Always Cold” (1969).
A dog, a boy and a bird house (1957)
Souvenir shop in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan (1960s)