A frontline hospital. Nurse writes a letter dictated by a wounded soldier. Photo by Boris Ignatovich (1942).
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.
Girl and soldier by the well. Photo by Mark Markov-Grinberg (Byelorussia, 1944).
Victory fireworks in Leningrad, photo by Vladimir Kapustin and Ya. Yarin (1945)
A street in Moscow after the first air raid in the war. Photo by
Margaret Bourke-White (1941)
Saw this on the street today. A plaque on the house where Tanya Savicheva lived. Tanya was an 11 year old girl who’s known for her heartbreaking diary during the siege of Leningrad.
Selling books in Moscow during WWII. Photo by Margaret Bourke-White (1941)
Air raid of Moscow, summer 1941
A letter to home. Photo by Anatoly Yegorov (1941-1945)
Children of commanders and soldiers of the Red Army prepare gifts for the wounded soldiers of the hospital (Moscow, 1942)
Distributing gas masks on Mayakovsky square in Moscow. Photo By Arkady Shaikhet (1941).
Moscow’s air defense repels the attack of German planes. Photo by Margaret Bourke-White (1941)
“I Will Return” by Viktor Safronov (1982)
Infantry is going to the front. Moscow, 1941. Photo by Anatoly Garanin.
Recruits are sent to the assembly point. June 23, 1941. Photo by Anatoly Garanin, Moscow.
“People of Leningrad Gardening”, postcard by G. Fitingof (c. 1943)
During the siege, the space around the famous St Isaac’s Cathedral in the heart of Leningrad was used for growing edible vegetables.