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It is impossible to imagine a circus without clowns. Here, various artists laugh at clowns. At the same time, these playing cards are also calendars with zodiac signs.

Father Frost is the most recognizable symbol of the New Year holidays. Most parents in the post-Soviet space give their children gifts on behalf of Father Frost, leaving them under a decorated tree ...

Do you believe in Santa Claus? Childhood and New Year's gifts are forever etched in memory. And even when you become an adult, seeing a dressed-up Santa Claus on the street, a smile involuntarily ...

In the USSR, in order to displace the people's celebration of Christmas, the New Year's celebration was revived. One of the characters of this holiday was Father Frost (analogous to the foreign Santa ...

Handmade deck. All 36 cards feature designs that were mostly used as tattoos in prisons in the USSR.

In Russia, a lot of people have been and are going through prisons. Even talented people end up in prison. Card games - despite the ban - one of the possibilities of communication and play - have ...

A unique deck of playing cards from prison. I've seen many different decks made using stencils, but all the ones I've encountered so far were made by lazy craftsmen. The stencil was made with three ...

I don’t know if there is such a saying somewhere else: “Don’t swear off scrip and prison.” A lot of people passed through places of detention in the USSR. And it wasn’t even necessary to ...

There was a period in modern Russia when Romantic New Year cards began to be published, with girls not devoid of eroticism. You can probably even attribute these drawings to the pin-up style. But ...

The Snow Maiden is an original character left over from the heritage of the USSR. One of the positive examples of a good cultural phenomenon born of the Soviet era.

The Snow Maiden is a New Year's character who is exclusively recognizable only in the territories of the former USSR. Like Santa Claus, the Snow Maiden appeared due to the fact that an atheistic ...

A rare deck of playing cards for a special game about raiders - people who seize and hold other people's property by brute force, bypassing the law. Released in Novosibirsk in 2007, drawn by artist ...