Vintage ads. Holiday tree ornament bazaar in TsUM (Central Universal Department Store in Moscow), 1953.
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration and all kinds of paper whimsy from the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 7 years old. I have an etsy shop for cards, books, pins and vintage finds from Russia.
New Year celebrations in the family of engineer Alexander Guskov, 1971 ()
One of Orthodox Christmas traditions is koledari - a kind of Christmas caroling. One of Russian names for Christmas eve is коляда, and koledari is called similarly–колядки.
Here are some 19 century postcards depicting koledari.
January 6 is Orthodox Christmas Eve. Here are some antique (pre-Soviet) postcards that celebrate Christmas.
(from Yuri Kombolin’s collection)
Cozy New Year celebration in Leningrad (1956)
January 1. Tear-off calendars on Soviet New Year postcards (1950s–1980s)
Dzerzhinsky Department Store in Moscow - vintage advertisement (1946)
New Year decorations, 1970s
Illustration from Murzilka (1952)
“New Year tree is coming!” Oleg Korovin (1954)
First New Year tree (1965)
Antique Christmas postcards (1907-1913). Although these are in Russian, we can easily guess that they were published in Germany. Pigs are a symbol of prosperity and luck in Germany (along with toadstools, chimney sweeps, four leaf clover and mistletoe). These postcards are packed! :)
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Making glass beads tree decorations (1949)
Ded Moroz and Snegurochka (1973)
Raisa Kudasheva “A Little Tree Was Born In The Forest” (a traditional Russian holiday song), book from 1958