Tree lichen. Photo by Mikhail Prishvin (1929).
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.
Spiderwebs. Photo by nature lover and book author Mikhail Prishvin (September 1930).
Postcards of Moscow’s Sokolniki park, photographed by Ivan Shagin (1960s)
Roe deer in the Moose Island Nature Reserve. Photo by A. Kholodov (Moscow oblast, 1989).
Swan at the lake. Photo by Valery Shustov (1980s).
Photo by V. Kuprov, published in Ogonyok in April 1983
River Lena. Photo by Mark Redkin (1970s).
Winter forest. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Russia, 1950s).
Lake Ritsa in Abkhazia. Photo by Boris Makaseyev and Vladislav Mikosha (1952).
Golden taiga. Photo by Ivan Shagin (Krasnoyarsk, 1960s).
We went to the forest the other day to check for mushrooms, and there were NONE! That’s so strange honestly. All because of the very dry summer. :( But the forest is beautiful, yellows and browns among the greens.
Red-cap found near Zakhodskoye in Leningrad region of Russia. Photo by Yu. Berezovsky (1981)
River Kama near Yelabuga, Tatar Republic of Russia. Photo by Anatoly Bochinin (1986)
Gorky Park in Moscow (1979)
View Sekirnaya mountain (Solovki islands, 1979)