Showing posts with label Birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birds. Show all posts

14 January 2017

Map of Estonia

Map of Estonia.

Postcard, 2016.
My collection.

And:
* Today this blog is turning six years old.
* Täna saab see blogi kuueaastaseks.
* Этому блогу сегодня исполняется шесть лет.

1 January 2017

New Year Card. USSR. 1987

Happy New Year!
Head uut aastat!
С Новым годом!

Postcard, 1987. / V. Bazarov.
My collection.

4 December 2015

Swan Lake in Kadriorg Park. Tallinn. Estonia. 1960

Swan Lake in Kadriorg Park. Tallinn. Estonia.
Luigetiik Kadrioru pargis. Tallinn.
Озеро лебедей в Кадриоргском парке. Таллинн. Эстония.

Postcard, 1960.
My collection.

28 November 2013

"Turkeys"

"Turkeys" / A. Plastov.
"Kalkunid" / A. Plastov.
"Индюки" / А. А. Пластов.

Postcard, 1955.
My collection.

* Arkady Plastov (31 January /O.S. 19 January/ 1893 - 12 May 1972) was a Russian socialist realist painter.

* Аркадий Александрович Пластов (1893-1972) - советский живописец. Народный художник СССР (1962). Лауреат Ленинской (1966) и Сталинской премии первой степени (1946).

9 September 2013

"Concert of Birds"

"Concert of Birds" (1630) / Frans Snyders / The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
"Lindude kontsert" / Frans Snyders / Ermitaaž, Peterburi.
"Птичий концерт" (1630) / Франс Снейдерс / Государственный Эрмитаж.

Postcard, 1955.
My collection.

* Frans Snyders or Snijders (11 November 1579 - 19 August 1657) was a Flemish painter of animals and still life.

* Франс Снейдерс (11 ноября 1579 - 19 августа 1657) — фламандский живописец, мастер натюрмортов и анималистических композиций в стиле барокко.

14 June 2013

Leo Tolstoy and Yasnaya Polyana. Russia. 1976 - 12.



Yasnaya Polyana. Village Grumant.
Jasnaja Poljana. Grumanti küla.
Ясная Поляна. Деревня Грумант.

Postcards, 1976.
My collection.

* From the set "Yasnaya Polyana - the Estate-Museum of Leo Tolstoy".
* Postkaardikomplektist "Lev Tolstoi mõis-muuseum Jasnaja Poljana".
* Из комплекта открыток "Музей-усадьба Л. Н. Толстого "Ясная Поляна"".

* "Tolstoj's grandfather was Prince Volkonsky of the Rurikovich. He served for some time in the Arkhangel province, and he named his village Grumant, which was what the "pomory" - northern people - used to call Spitsbergen. And it seemed that a fragment of far-away Norway existed near Jasnaja Poljana, at a distance of three kilometers. The writer enjoyed his trips to this charming village with its four houses, one of which was a summer house, full of smells and memories of children and horse rides. Grumant became a "great delight", a paradise incarnate for Tolstoj." -
Scando-Slavica, vol. 46, N. Nikitina: Lev Tolstoj v poiskach poterjannogo raja (L. N. Tolstoj i Norvegija).

* Grumanti küla asus kolme versta kaugusel Jasnaja Poljanast ja oli Lev Tolstoile kallis lapsepõlvemälestuste tõttu. Külale oli nime pannud tema vanaisa vürst Volkonski.

14 July 2012

Nicholas Roerich "Guests from Overseas"

"Guests from Overseas" ("Varangians", 1902) / Nicholas Roerich (1874 - 1947) / The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.

"Meretagused külalised" / Nikolai Roerich / Riiklik Vene Muuseum, Peterburi.

"Заморские гости" (1902) / Николай Рерих / Русский музей, Санкт-Петербург.

Postcard, 1976.
My collection.

* Nicholas Roerich was a Russian mystic, painter, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler, and public figure. - Wikipedia.

19 June 2012

"Children Free the Bird"

"Children Free the Bird" / Unknown artist. / The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.

"Lapsed lasevad linnukese vabadusse" / Tundmatu kunstnik. / Riiklik Vene Muuseum.

"Дети, выпускающие птичку на волю" / Неизвестный художник. / Государственный Русский Музей.

Postcard, 1941.
My collection.

7 June 2012

"I wanted to go fishing too..."

"I wanted to go fishing too..." / Ksenia Uspenskaya-Kologrivova.
"Ei võetud kalale kaasa" / Ksenia Uspenskaja-Kologrivova (sünd 1922. a)
"Не взяли на рыбалку" / Ксения Успенская-Кологривова.

Postcard, 1956.
My collection.

28 May 2012

"Bird-catchers"

"Bird-catchers" (1887) / Alexey Korzukhin (1835- 1894).
"Linnupüüdjad" / A. Korzuhhin.
"Птичьи враги" / Алексей Корзухин.

Postcard, 1956.
My collection.

2 September 2011

"Cranes"

"Cranes" / S. Kupriyanov.
"Kured"
"Журавли" / С. Куприянов.

Postcard, 1956.
My collection.

22 April 2011

20 March 2011

Alexei Savrasov "The Rooks Have Come Back"


"The Rooks Have Come Back" (1871) / Alexei Savrasov (1830–1897).
Postcard, 1956.

"Künnivaresed saabusid" (1871.a) / A. Savrassov.

"Грачи прилетели" / А. Саврасов.
My collection.