Riga seaside (Latvia). Postcard by A. Pletnyov (1961).
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.
Gorky street (Tverskaya) in Moscow in 1980
I got these postcards at the Space Museum in Samara! Aren’t they cool? Matryoshkas designed after actual space tech. :)
I want to share them with you, so I’ll be including them with orders placed in my over the next week. (I have 12 of these, so this is while supply lasts obviously. I also reserve the right to favor bigger orders.)
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with New Year tree ornaments in Zarubin’s postcards. They looked so delicious to me, like colorful candy!
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Soviet May Day postcards (via)
Easter celebrations in Saint Petersburg. Antique Russian postcards.
Antique Easter postcard by N. Matorin (Russia, 1900s)
Pulsatilla vernalis. Photo postcard by A. Terziyev (1981)
Grocery store in Sochi. Photo postcard by V. Panov (1972).
Yesterday I was outside and saw the pasqueflower. It’s one of my favourite spring flowers. ❤
Eastern pasqueflower in Belavezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus (postcard from 1950s).
“April 12—Cosmonautics Day”, postcard by V. Viktorov (1962)
Yuri Vasnetsov’s illustration for Kolobok, Russian fairy tale. Postcard from early 1940s.
A Sick Hare, postcard by A. Belov (1956)
Rare Soviet postcard from 1930s