What a wonderful cover!

Henry Cow - 1978 - Western Culture
Many thanks to my beloved friend
Edward Dekeyser for finding this...

ASSA

miss Belguim

I really like this old picture of Brussels in 1958.
And why I always make a mistake in word Belgium?

Truly yours,
Irina

Russian women / Русские женщины

colored photo 1907(!)

The rule

Image from
The Art of Looking Sideways.

Новая Москва

New Moscow
By Yuri Pimenov,
1937

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Варвара Степанова / Varvara Stepanova

She was Rodchenko's wife, but she was not just a 'wife,' she was a talented artist and designer too. They met in Kazan', where they studied and never say good bye since that time. They worked together a lot, but her individual invention was amazing textile patterns:

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Иван Макаров / Ivan Makarov

КИКА, Кокошник

Thats where my surname from...
Truly yours,
Irina

Агитационный Фарфор

The nicest thing about Soviet government was that big part of a budget was given to Contemprorary Arts in the very beginning.
That is happend with porcelain in 20-s, best Russian artists worked on it: Kandinskiy, Malevitch, Chehonin, Suetin, Petrov-Vodkin e.t.c.
It's a brilliant work that still keeps an atmosphear of that time.

A Symbol

Moscow from inside out

Beautiful shots by ILYA ABULHANOV
More in his blog

Merdanchik

A popular Russian illustrator and designer with Turkmenian roots
Merdanchik has his own blog on a tumbler now.

Truly yours,
Irina

Viktor

We all remember Viktor Tsoy as a splendid musician of Russian New Wave scene, but he was an actor too.
Movie named "Igla" by Rashid Nugmanov is a good example of Soviet movie in Perestroyka time. Watch this outstanding film.
And now Viktor is back as an image on t-shirts again!
Check at: GFO e-shop









Truly yours,
Irina