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.
A girl and a dragonfly, photo by Valery Khristoforov (USSR, 1985)
“Everybody’s working in a little village near the swamp” - illustration by V. Blinov (1971)
“Trolleybus of the Forest”, illustration by Konstantin Rotov (1956)
Illustration by L. Gamburger (1966)
Kornei Chukovsky “Mukha-Tsokotukha” - Illustration by Vladimir Konashevich. Postcard from 1964 ()
Mukha-Tsokotukha - vintage filmstrip illustrated by B. Stepantsev (1963). Story by Kornei Chukovsky. You can see the whole filmstrip here.
From the “Butterfly of Caucasus” postcard set (1988)
In my shop: https://etsy.me/2pEJ7Pc
Vintage Soviet postcard - illustration based on Chukovsky’s Mukha-Tsokotukha.
Artist Yu. Yasyukevitch, 1984 ()
The Red Book of USSR (endangered species). Butterflies.
1987