In about six weeks this remark­able man will cel­e­brate his 80^th Birth­day. Who is he? The most pop­u­lar clown of the Soviet Union, also known as the Sun­shine Clown, Oleg Popov is true icon of its own. Born in 1930, he had on of the tough­est upbring­ings ever  —  yet he man­aged to become one of most […]

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A fun post for you today  —  a series of illus­tra­tions for a Russ­ian edi­tion of The Hob­bit, 1989. The artist Belom­lin­sky por­trayed the char­ac­ters in a funky man­ner. The book was pub­lished at 300,000 copies and it was a suc­cess  —   I had itas a kid and it had me scared. I could never get over the […]

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We are very for­tu­nate to have gained the access to the col­lec­tion of pho­tographs below  —  they have come from a pri­vate col­lec­tion of Eugene Orlov, a keen pho­tog­ra­pher of 1960s, scanned by his grand­son. Por­trayed is a series of shots from a sum­mer walk in the Gorky Park, an iconic fam­ily recre­ational venue in Moscow. Please […]

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The most famous PR image of the pio­ne­ria of the Soviet Union was a sum­mer vaca­tion camp sit­u­ated in the Crimea (Ukraine), next to Gurzuf town. Founded as a sana­to­rium for the kids suf­fer­ing and recov­er­ing from the TB by the Russ­ian Soci­ety of the Red Cross, it first opened doors in […]

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Warm kitty, Sleepy Kitty, Purr Purr Purr.
For those of you who found the pre­vi­ous post a tad too seri­ous (and we always wel­come you feed­back!), here’s a set of illus­tra­tions for a chil­drens’ book Look At These Kit­tens! by Georgy Karlov. Please retweet and stay tuned! Cheers

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…and we are back on air after our short break! Sorry it was unan­nounced, but very much needed  —  and we are delighted to recon­nect with you again. We’ve got lots of great stuff com­ing  —  from kids sum­mer camps through to some amaz­ing ama­teur pho­tog­ra­phy as well as we shall look at each decade in detail  —  what 1940s, 1950s, […]

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