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These prison playing cards were designed in 1997 at the Vanino prison in Khabarovsk Krai. The characters chosen for the cards are cartoon characters from Tom and Jerry. They were donated by Evgeny ...

These comic playing cards were published in France between 1814 and 1830. Due to my limited knowledge, I was only able to identify Don Quixote and his servant Sancho Panza. It's safe to assume that ...

To be honest, it is not very clear why the cards are called satirical, apparently any departure from the classics, everyday life - is already satire. However, the maps were drawn and first published ...

The masters of Palekh painting worked very fruitfully during the Soviet era. There were many illustrations based on folk tales, and they also painted plots of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's tales. ...

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 ...