Fall 2013 Fashion Trends
“Modern generations mix nostalgia for their Soviet heritage with their contemporary futures, resulting in a blend of quirky folk, Soviet style packaging and a fascination with branded sportswear.”
(via fadedcoloursfadedclothes)
Aristarkh Lentulov : was a major Russian avant-garde artist of Cubist orientation who also worked on set designs for the theatre.
From Saint-Petersburgh, Russia artist Eugene Frost. Swa Bird art print, inspired from the ancient Slavic Book of Veles.
Russian Spy
Coloured lithograph of Catherine I, Empress of Russia.
Nina Lugovskaya, Ниночка Луговская, was Moscow teenager who lived under Stalin in the 1930’s in USSR. Her diaries, which have recently been discovered in NKVD/KGB files, are being likened to those of Anne Frank. When state secret police ransacked Nina’s home and discovered the journals, they were used as evidence to convict her whole family of treason and they were all sent to Siberian gulag for seven years. This is why the diaries have remained in the KGB files until recently. Nina’s diaries have also been published in English.
Photo is of Nina and sister Elena.
Konstantin Zvezdochetov is one of the leading artists in contemporary Russian art. He was one of the activists of apartment exhibition projects by the APTART movement- Novel-refrigerator, Object Comprising of 13 Items, 1982
Word to Leonid Brezhnev keeping it casual
Не проливай масло
Do not spill the oil
“a great majority of women were heavily overworked compared to men. Obvious inequality, it is. And the socialism was declaring that both men and women were equal. Hence this poster.”
-A . Rudkovich, 1970
ГАЗ-М73 (1955)
This small prototype, intended to be the personal field vehicles of collective farm chairmen, demonstrated impressive off-road capabilities when it was built in 1955. It never saw mass production, but it did aid in perfecting both the Москвич-402 and its off-road offspring, the Москвич-410.
Vintage USSR poster









